Yes, the holiday shopping season is still far in the future. Wait…Cyber Monday is only 8 weeks away. Yes, that gives you plenty of time before you need to start performance testing your e-commerce site. Or does it?
Each year at the beginning of October, we have seen a distinct increase in emails and phone calls asking for help with website performance. This year is no exception. So, we thought we would share a few important statistics about web performance with our readers.
Consider these stats from Kissmetrics:
According to Rackspace:
By the way, Google has stated that site performance is also affects search engine rankings. Faster sites move up. Slower sites move down.
Website visitors expect fast response times. Duh.