Tag: mobile commerce index

Mobile commerce website at Sports Authority has bulked up

John Montgallo
Mobile Commerce

Despite this fact, it has also grown its strength and its performance is still better than other sites. According to Keynote Systems, even though Sports Authority’s mobile commerce website has gained a great deal of weight, its home page still loads at an average of 9.45 seconds, which is not ideal but it is still superior to other sites on the index. Keynote feels that the retailer could still achieve far better performance if its homepage shed some weight. According to the company behind the Keynote Systems Mobile Commerce Index,…

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Mobile commerce website at GNC beefs up and gets injured

Sam Lambert
Mobile Commerce Trends

The increased size of the site, said Keynote, has caused its homepage to take far too long to load. According to the latest Mobile Commerce Performance Index from Keynote Systems, GNC bulked up its smartphone website to such a degree that it dropped its rank down to 28th place out of a possible 30, this week. The General Nutrition Centers Inc. website is now hurting from impossibly long load times. The goal of mobile commerce websites, according to Keynote and most other experts in the industry, is to make sure…

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Mobile commerce site performance at Dick’s improves

Jorge Gonzalez
Mobile Commerce - Dick's Sporting Goods

The sporting goods store has managed to speed up its page load time by a second. According to the latest statistics from Keynote Systems, Dick’s Sporting Goods, the decision to slash eight objects from its mobile commerce page has improved its performance by reducing its page load time by a second. Keynote feels that the retailer’s decision paid off as the improvement to the site performance was meaningful. On March 21, Dick’s took its mobile commerce website objects down from 36 to 28 so that its average page load time…

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

Jesse Collins
mobile commerce site performance weight

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…

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M-commerce site performance improves for Foot Locker

Stephanie Beck
M-Commerce performance

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…

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