Mobile commerce performance by Dick’s Sporting Goods yo-yos from week to week

Mobile Commerce - Dick's Sporting Goods

The retailer has been drawing some significant attention to itself, of late, but its mcommerce results are inconsistent. When it comes to solid mobile commerce performance, every fraction of a second counts, and this message has never been more clear than in the example of the smartphone friendly website from Dick’s Sporting Goods. According to the mcommerce statistics from Keynote Systems, Dick’s has not been all that consistent. The importance of consistent strong performance in mobile commerce retail websites is very important. Even part of a second can make the…

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Report sheds lights on the problems mobile commerce faces

Retail Mobile Commerce Experience Statistics

Jumio report highlights payment friction and poor shopping experience Jumio, a leading payment processing firm, has released a report that aims to shed some light on the problems that exist in the mobile commerce field. The mobile space has been receiving a great deal of positive attention recently, largely due to the high performance of mobile commerce during the 2013 holiday season. Mobile payments are not all glamour and without fault, however, as Jumio’s report shows. The report highlights the friction that exists in the mobile payments space and how…

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Mobile commerce website at GNC beefs up and gets injured

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

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 availability increases with better wireless networks

Mobile Commerce predictions

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…

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