Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Some of you may remember the Amazon outage of 2013, when the retail behemoth went down for 40 minutes. There are three metrics that are hit hard by slow page load times: Abandonment rate Revenue Brand health Let’s take a deeper dive into the data behind each of these metrics.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. The nightmare scenario for online retailers during peak periods, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a system crash.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

It’s also common for teams, as part of their log monitoring practice, to write business metrics to a log that can then be tracked on a dashboard or trigger an alert. Databases, however, require indexing — a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval — before log data can be searched and analyzed. Indexing overhead.

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Analytics Storage Retail DevOps 246

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Element Timings can be collected in both Synthetic and RUM by configuring them in the Custom Metrics section of your settings: Adding a custom metric in SpeedCurve. With Element Timing we can also measure when the visual changes are displayed and get a more accurate picture of the users' experience. Limitations of Element Timing.

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Metrics Retail Mobile Analytics 141

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

It’s also common for teams, as part of their log monitoring practice, to write business metrics to a log that can then be tracked on a dashboard or trigger an alert. Databases, however, require indexing — a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval — before log data can be searched and analyzed. Indexing overhead.

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Analytics Storage Retail DevOps 245

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Real user monitoring collects data on a variety of metrics. For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Real user monitoring works by injecting code into an application to capture metrics while the application is in use. How real user monitoring works.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

This includes collecting metrics, logs, and traces from all applications and infrastructure components. 2022 CISO Report: Retail sector – report Dive deep into the state of runtime vulnerability management in retail and how to protect your brand. Shift-right ensures reliability in production. Together they equal better software.

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Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2019

One recent public example is Zalando, a German retailer. These capabilities are vital to seeing performance timings like Time to first byte , DOM interactive , Visually complete , Speed index , and others in your monitoring solution. Customers enjoy using your digital channels more and buy more from your company. See example below.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the speed at which organizations digitally transform — especially in industries such as eCommerce and healthcare — as expectations for a great customer experience dramatically increased. This process reinvents existing processes, operations, customer services, and organizational culture.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2022

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Key metrics. These visuals are a great tool for validating the best metrics to focus on for your pages.

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Benchmarking Speed Retail Mobile 59

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Have you ever looked at the page speed metrics – such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint – for your site in both your synthetic and real user monitoring tools and wondered "Why are these numbers so different?" And as the graph below shows, even some urban centres can suffer download speeds as low as 20 Mbps.

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Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

But as you can see in these filmstrips of Wiggle, a UK cycling retailer, hiding the page can have a dramatic impact on a visitor's experience: Comparison of a site loading with (top) and without (bottom) the anti-flicker snippet enabled. To summarize: On one hand, anti-flicker snippets make metrics such as FCP (and possibly LCP) worse.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

I’m at Shop.org this week, having really interesting conversations with online retailers. Making customers happy is the not-so-secret secret to retail success. Here's an overview of the most common performance issues on retail sites, and how you can track them down and fix them. H1 Render is one of these metrics.

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Retail Performance Metrics Analytics 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. 62 requests before the Largest Layout Shift (a CLS-related metric that SpeedCurve captures). More on that later.).

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Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Target is one of the most well-known retailers around, and they’ve recently increased their focus on the e-commerce portion of their business – Target.com. In fact, they just cracked into the top 10 list of US e-commerce retailers. ” This is because Target.com does an excellent job of improving user-perceived speed.

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Speed Curve

AUGUST 21, 2017

That's why we're very excited to introduce Hero Rendering Times, a set of new metrics for measuring the user experience. These metrics are available right now to SpeedCurve users. A brief history of UX metrics. Then Speed Index came along. Speed Index is based on measuring when visual content (e.g.,

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Metrics Speed Retail Media 49

Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. Since our team is preparing for eTail West , there is no better time to address some of the common objections I’ve seen when talking to eCommerce and Retail teams about performance.

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Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. Which metrics should you start with? Let's get started!

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Speed Curve

MARCH 24, 2024

In this post, I'll demonstrate how you can use SpeedCurve RUM to identify all types of navigations, their performance impact, and potential opportunities for delivering lightning-fast page speed to your users. For example, in SpeedCurve, prerendered pages will have a value of '0' for most metrics.

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!" speedindex-test.

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Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!" speedindex-test.

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Speed Analytics Google Website 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Whilst web page load time is an important metric to measure, it doesn't tell the whole picture. As I started to learn more about web page performance, I started to experiment with webpagetest.org and discovered the different metrics that it uses. The total is your Speed Index score!" speedindex-test.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The newcomer to the scene was Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and, not surprisingly, it's the metric that's gotten the most questions. Does it correlate to user behaviour or business metrics in any measurable way? While I understand why score-based metrics add value, I'm a visual person. How is it calculated? is considered poor.

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Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 88

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. See this guide to learn how you can define custom dimension data, metadata, or metric (timing, size, numeric).

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Servers Cache Benchmarking Retail 64

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Mandatory disclosure of ad load and other operating metrics might have helped to prevent Facebook, for example, from exploiting its users’ privacy in order to maximise ad dollars from harvesting each user’s data.

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Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 127

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Your Sessions dashboard lets you drill down and segment your RUM data by: Metric / duration. Web Performance for Retailers. RUM Live dashboard.

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Retail Benchmarking Website Metrics 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. This primarily regards its UXUI and speed, so a progressive web app can be a solution to consider.

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Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Here you can still find time series charts that show how performance is trending over time across a number of key metrics, including Core Web Vitals. Fixing high-traffic but poor-performing areas of your site will help lift your overall metrics.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart). This is a high-level waterfall for the LEGO.com home page.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Speed without quality creates re-work that actually negatively impacts time-to-market. “In Real-time Flow Metrics with Tasktop Viz.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

Speed Curve

AUGUST 6, 2024

Most customers won't see significant changes to Core Web Vitals or other metrics but for a small number of customers some metrics will increase. This post will cover: What the changes are How the changes can affect Core Web Vitals and other metrics Why we are making the changes now What's Changing?

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Metrics Retail Network Processing 59

Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2020

One of the huge benefits of tracking web performance over time is the ability to see trends and compare metrics. Understand which metrics got better or worse. In this demo account, we track a number of leading retail, travel, and media sites. Hovering over any metric in the waterfall chart shows you the metric for both tests.

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Metrics Retail Benchmarking Testing 66

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. More on that later.)

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Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” They quickly understood my point. Need for Alignment Between IT and Business KPIs.

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Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40