In a recent article for Mobile Marketer, it explained that retailers need to understand that the mobile Web can augment the in-store shopping experience as many consumers check and compare competitors’ products and prices as they actually peruse store aisles and contemplate purchases.
Today, companies with the strongest mobile Web performance are shaping user expectations across all [...]
How can you seize control of your site to ensure consistent quality with so many browsers and browser versions to master, and so many variables in their performance? Success depends on having the right perspective, the right focus and the right execution discussed in this entry.
As retailers ramp up for the upcoming 2010 online holiday shopping season, they need to be concerned with web performance and its impact on customer satisfaction. There are several key questions retailers need to consider, prioritize, and address to ensure they deliver exceptional website performance.
eBusiness marketing and IT professionals intuitively know that Web performance is a business issue and are always interested in concrete evidence of the impact of performance on the bottom line. Many companies invest heavily in improving the speed of their websites, as studies repeatedly show that faster websites generate more revenue. Don’t take our word for it–examples from Bing, Google, and Yahoo! along with words from Fred Wilson are included here to the same effect.
Today marks the general availability of our Gomez Platform Winter 2010 release.
You may be asking “Is it really still winter?” Well, here in chilly New England the answer is YES. The Gomez team has been locked inside by our virtual fire places, building major enhancements to the entire Gomez Platform. Over the last few [...]
Sounds crazy, right? But have you ever thought about the business impact if your site performs poorly during peak traffic periods? We wondered about this and recently conducted a market research study based on 1500 consumers’ experiences with retail, financial services and travel sites during 2009 peak traffic periods.
For starters, we wondered if shoppers have the [...]
What an exciting day it was. Of course better yet, it’s amazing what lies ahead when you think about what we, as Compuware and Gomez, will be able to do for our customers. I remember from the first meetings being amazed with the Gomez folks – clear focus on the customer problem being solved, a [...]
Okay, so I’m not much of a handyman. I enjoy tinkering in the woodshop, but my accomplishments are more likely to include bending some perfectly good nails, gluing my hand to a tabletop, and starting a small fire. As much as I admire the work of master carpenters, I’m just not at that level. (Get [...]
How popular is the mobile Web? Well, Facebook grew from 20 million to 65 million mobile users in eight months. And people are doing more than just updating their status and checking on their friends. They are checking their bank balances and then spending what’s left in their bank accounts, all from mobile devices.
Over the [...]
I recently attended The Ajax Experience 2009 Conference right in our backyard in Boston, where I co-presented to a packed room with our CTO Imad Mouline in a session called “Web Compatibility and Performance Testing in a Multi-Browser World.” These are some of the key takeaways.