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Websitepulse 2022 Mother's Day Performance & Uptime Report Summary


Mother's Day 2022 has passed with considerable success now that the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions are minimal. More than 84% of the Americans said they would celebrate the holiday, planning to spend $31.7 billion — $2.8 billion more than 2021 Mother's Day spending. The holiday was wildly successful for the online retailers, who fulfilled more than half of the gift purchases.

Now, when the holiday weekend is over, we have finished monitoring 11 of the most popular gift shopping websites for our 2022 Mother's Day Report.

For this Performance Report, WebSitePulse, as usual, measures the performance of the websites' home pages and measures a complete web transaction representative for the end-users interactions with a website.

The report measures Uptime and Response Time as the most critical metrics for the availability and the reliability of any web-based operation, which is crucial for the end-users overall online experience. Measurements of the multi-step online transactions are made every 15 minutes, simultaneously, from 3 different monitoring locations: Washington DC (US East Coast), San Francisco, CA (US West Coast), and Chicago, IL (US Central).

The overall performance of most of the monitored gift shopping websites demonstrated their preparedness to meet the challenges of the expected heavier web traffic during Mother's Day week. We have found out the daily average response time from all monitored websites was 2.462 sec., which is more than 0.5 seconds slower than the last year's. The daily average responses by location are as follow:
  • Washington DC (US East Coast) – 2.155 sec
  • San Francisco, CA (US West Coast) – 2.842 sec
  • Chicago, IL (US Central) – 2.402 sec
For the third year in a row, the speed leader in the Mother's Day Report is personalizationmall.com, with an average response time of 0.591 seconds, followed once again by berries.com (0.707 sec) and fromyouflowers.com (0.990 sec). Far away at the bottom of the table this year was gifts.com, with 7.522 seconds average response time, which probably frustrated many of the site's visitors and may have led to high website abandonment.

Compared to the last year's performance, the three leaders decreased their response time by an average of 0.12 seconds, while the slowest site this year performed slower than the previous year by 3.1 seconds on average.

The daily average uptime for the entire group of 11 websites for the 2022 Mother's Day shopping season was 99.993%. The daily average uptime by location is as follows:
  • Washington DC (US East Coast) – 99.994%
  • San Francisco, CA (US West Coast) – 99.995%
  • Chicago, IL (US Central) – 99.989%


This year we have 7 of the 11 monitored gift shopping websites performed with no interruptions (100% uptime) during the whole monitoring period. Sees.com was the store with the lowest uptime — %99.947, which was down for around 10 min. during the entire monitored period.

Average Response times for the whole period
#TargetSan FranciscoChicagoWashingtonAvg. resp. time
1personalizationmall.com0.7250.5230.5250.591
2berries.com0.7930.8770.4410.703
3fromyouflowers.com1.5160.6950.7530.988
41800flowers.com1.1621.3960.6921.083
5proflowers.com1.4241.3071.3011.344
6sees.com1.3611.3862.0481.598
7ftd.com2.2101.9242.0512.062
8teleflora.com3.0762.9052.6562.879
9gifttree.com5.2432.9262.2003.456
10helzberg.com5.2094.7144.3294.751
11gifts.com8.5317.4486.5497.509

Average Uptime for the whole period
#TargetSan FranciscoChicagoWashingtonAvg. uptime
1personalizationmall.com100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
2teleflora.com100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
3helzberg.com100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
41800flowers.com100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
5fromyouflowers.com100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
6berries.com100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
7gifttree.com100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
8ftd.com100.000%100.000%99.984%99.995%
9proflowers.com100.000%99.980%100.000%99.993%
10gifts.com99.979%99.972%100.000%99.984%
11sees.com99.966%99.920%99.943%99.943%

Best regards, and takeITeasy™ with WebSitePulse™

Iavor Marinoff, CEO


Methodology:
The 2022 Mother's Day Reports reflect a complete web transaction, representative for the End Users' interactions with a website. The reporting period covers the dates between Apr 27th and May 08, 2022. Performance and availability measurements are made for a typical multi-step 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 shopper experience. The simultaneous monitoring is performed from 3 US-based locations of the WebSitePulse monitoring network: San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL, and Washington, DC. In case of a detected malfunction or unavailability, the system performs automated error verification from 3 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
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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.

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