m-commerce site performance Archives

Mobile commerce availability increases with better wireless networks

07/03/201307/01/2013 Stephanie Beck

Retailers all experience better site performance simply because of improvements to the networks, themselves. According to the Keynote Mobile Commerce Index, the wireless networks from Verizon and AT&T had been acting up, which had negatively impacted the smartphone site performance of all of the retailers on the index, but now that this problem is resolved, success rates have also improved. As the wireless networks smoothed out the issues they were experiencing, all of the index retailers saw improvements. That said, Keynote also pointed out that among all of the thirty…

Mobile commerce website may not achieve success from breaking all the rules

06/17/201306/15/2013 Jesse Collins

GNC’s massive smartphone homepage takes far too long to load meaning that . According to the mobile commerce index from Keynote, the smartphone optimized website of General Nutrition Centers (GNC) is enormous and breaks all of the typically recommended “rules” for this type of site. The massive homepage at GNC takes an average of 41 seconds to load, according to Keynote data. The reason that the mobile commerce homepage takes such a tremendous amount of time to load is primarily due to its weight, which ranges from 800 kilobytes to…

M-commerce site performance improves for Foot Locker

06/12/201306/10/2013 Stephanie Beck

At the same time, the athletic footwear and apparel retailer’s website remains slow to load. According to the latest Keynote m-commerce report, Foot Locker’s mobile friendly website is still taking 17.99 seconds to load, which is causing it unnecessary harm considering the strong performance that it has otherwise displayed. The performance that the site has displayed allowed it to move up by 15 positions in the latest week. During the week that ended on June 2, Foot Locker Inc. was able to improve its m-commerce site performance to such a…