Login
25 April, 2024
Performance Tracking > 2010 Holiday Season Report WebSitePulse 2010 Holiday Retail Performance and Uptime Report SummaryThe New Year brings good news - online sales reached a new peak and retailers saw a rise of over 12% versus last year. During retails most lucrative tim e of the year online shoppers put their credit cards to work and spent a total of $32.6 billion - an all-time record for the season, according to comScore. On Cyber Monday the shopping activity was at its peak and spending surpassed the $1 billion threshold, making it the heaviest online spending day of 2010. Over the whole Holiday period we kept a close eye on the performance of 10 of the most popular shopping destinations and recorded their results. The Reports simulated a typical online purchase transaction, like selecting an item, adding it to the shopping cart and checkout, representative for the End Users' int eractions with a website. Measurements of the multi-step transactions were made every 15 minutes, simultaneously from 3 different US cities. The results show that all of the monitored retailers were well prepared for the intense Holiday traffic and, except for a few minor hiccups detected mostly in the beginning of the season, all sites were accessible and delivered the expected levels of End-User experience and Customer satisfaction. You can find m ore information on the most notable incidents in the Report Highlights section here. The summarized numbers and averages for the entire monitoring period are shown in the tables below: Average Response times for the whole period
Average Uptime for the whole period
We wish you a Prosperous and Error-free New Year! Best regards, and takeITeasy™ with WebSitePulse™ Iavor Marinoff, CEO Methodology: Performance and availability are measured for a typical travel-related booking web transaction at 15 minute monitoring interval, every day, 24/7. The WebSitePulse application monitoring service is used to collect data and to create the reports. The steps in each transaction are comparable for all websites, and reflect the real online buyers' experience. The simultaneous monitoring is performed from three locations of the WebSitePulse global monitoring network. In case of a detected malfunction or unavailability, the system performs automated error verification from four independent resources and only after the above procedure is performed and has returned consistent results, the detected error is confirmed, recorded, and included in the daily performance reports. In these cases, an advanced WebSitePulse exclusive feature comes into play - Forced Monitoring -, which automatically switches to a 3 minute monitoring interval for increased accuracy. About WebSitePulse: WebSitePulse is a leading provider of global, independent, and objective availability and performance monitoring of web sites, servers, network components, web applications, e-business- and email round-trip transactions. Contact: For more information about this report please contact: George T., CTO phone: 1-407-380-1600 email: Reproduction: WebSitePulse launched the Performance and Uptime Reports program to keep the general public and the Internet community informed about the performance of specific websites and the challenges their webmasters, owners and operators are facing on a daily basis, especially when the web traffic intensifies due to some special events through the year. Some of the most popular web destinations, related to each particular event, are selected for the purpose of the Reports, and data from their performance measurements is made available on the WebSitePulse public website. With the intention to broadly disseminate this information for the benefit of the Internet community, we encourage the use of this information without prior approval and under the following Terms and Conditions:
The Data from the performance measurements cannot be changed or manipulated and should be used "as is". |
