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M-commerce speed at Best Buy improves as reliability drops

06/24/201306/22/2013 Jorge Gonzalez

The electronics retailer has managed the slash its load time by 1.5 seconds, but errors are more common. According to the latest report from Keynote Systems on m-commerce performance, the mobile homepage at Best Buy has an average load time of 10.82 seconds, which isn’t great but that is significantly improved over the results from the previous week. The load time combined with the site availability are what are measured by Keynote for its index. Both of those factors were taken into account when the ranking for the site’s position…

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…

Mobile commerce performance at Rakuten Shopping was steady in May

06/07/201306/03/2013 Jesse Collins

The smartphone friendly site was able to keep solid load time and availability last month. According to the latest report from Keynote Systems regarding the performance of the mobile commerce website at Rakuten Shopping, the company was able to maintain steady results throughout all of May, but it would actually be possible to improve if some interesting changes were made. The site has opted to load a desktop file which actually hamper’s the page’s performance ability. That said, the mobile commerce homepage for Rakuten Shopping was able to load at…

Mobile commerce gave U.S. retail a shot in the arm in April

05/16/201305/15/2013 John Montgallo

Last month, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that smartphones generated many sales. The U.S. Census Bureau has just released a study that showed that while mobile commerce and online shopping did experience a slowing at the start of the year, it also saw a considerable increase on a monthly and quarterly level in April. The total food services and retail sales for the first quarter this year increased by 3.7 percent over 2012. At the same time, the month of April showed sales of $419 billion, which displays a month…

Mobile commerce performance considerably improves at J.C. Penney

05/15/201305/13/2013 L. Green

Keynote Systems has reported that the retailer’s site is now loading twice as fast as previously. According to the latest results of the mobile commerce index from Keynote Systems, the homepage for J.C. Penney Co. Inc. was able to slash its load time in half by 1.78 seconds. On average, the department store was able to load its page in 7.21 seconds, a considerable improvement. The rule of thumb, according to Keynote, is that the lighter a mobile commerce website is, the better it will perform. This was how J.C.…