Tag: mcommerce statistics

M-commerce website performance crushed by GameStop’s huge homepage

Stephanie Beck
m-commerce slow performance

The size of the page was damaging to its ability to load quickly and hurt its Keynote Index score. The GameStop online retailer’s m-commerce website experienced a crushing load time of 19.53 seconds last week as its massive homepage side proved to be too much for many mobile consumers, especially as it loaded successfully only 98.99 percent of the time. This, according to the data gathered by Keynote Systems for the most recent week of their index. Keynote Systems feels that GameStop simply made its m-commerce homepage too big to…

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Mcommerce site for underwear retail provides exceptional sales performance

Jennifer Goula
mcommerce retail underwear site

WebUndies.com has recorded considerable returns from its inexpensive approach to selling over mobile. Online underwear retailer, WebUndies.com has just reported that its inexpensive mcommerce selling approach has been paying off in a highly successful way as reflected by the sales on its website. The family owned business also sells robes and loungewear and is reporting considerable mobile sales. The mcommerce performance that the website experienced in 2012 was recorded to be $168,000. This represents a notable 5.4 percent of the total sales that it made online, which was $3.1 million.…

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Mcommerce purchases are primarily generated through iOS devices

Stephanie Beck
iphone mcommerce

A report has just been released that shows that Apple smartphones are responsible for 68 percent of mobile sales. According to the results of research performed by Unbound Commerce, iPhones account for 68 percent of mcommerce sales, while Android smartphones make up an additional 31.4 percent of those sales. The analysis used data gleaned from a number of retailers in order to make this determination. Among the various companies that participated in this mcommerce study were: HauteLook, e.l.f cosmetics, Ice.com Inc., and Wine.com Inc. They shared their internal analytics data…

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Mobile commerce results of 2012 over 2011

L. Green
Mobile Commerce predictions

Now that the new year has started, it is possible to analyze the complete holiday shopping season. With 2012 behind us, mobile commerce experts are beginning to take a look at the comparison between the success of the holiday shopping season last year in comparison with the one the year before. What can be said for certain is that there was growth in virtually every area of the channel. As many retailers consider the holiday season the defining time that will tell them whether or not they will be in…

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Mcommerce web slowed to a crawl from massive Cyber Monday use

Jesse Collins
m-commerce slow performance

Mobile websites took over twice as long to load throughout the online discounts and offers. While Cyber Monday showed record breaking mcommerce performance for sales, the tremendous number of smartphone and tablet shoppers that swamped the mobile web generated delays that considerably slowed down site loading times. Some of the delays faced by smartphone and tablet users mirrored the lineups on Black Friday. The average load time on Cyber Monday was 18 second longer than it would typically be. This, according to the Keynote Mobile Commerce Index. The web and…

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