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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Mcommerce from Foot Locker and Office Depot shows poor performance

Mcommerce website performance

Some retailers have stumbled downward on the Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index. The Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index has shown that for the week that ended on October 14, 2012, Office Depot’s mcommerce website fell twenty places to the 23rd position, while Foot locker plummeted by seventy places to reach the 27thspot. The two mobile websites experienced a number of errors that stopped them from rendering. This, according to Keynote Systems Inc., the firm that runs the mcommerce index. According to Joke Flake, a mobile and web performance expert for…

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Five stars for top three retail giants in mobile site performance

Mobile Commerce Industry

The Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index data was released, applauding J.C. Penney Co. Inc., Staples Inc., and Sears Holdings Corp., for the best scores among mobile retailers, as well as for the short load times for their pages. The data for the week that ended on December 4, showed that Sears was the top retailer. Its mobile web homepage was able to load in 3.91 seconds, and was successfully loaded 99.44 percent of the time. According to Keynote Systems Inc., the web and mobile performance management company, this earned the…

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