FREE REPORT: State of the Union for Ecommerce Page Speed & Web Performance...
Ecommerce web pages are 22% slower than they were in 2012, top retailers are underperforming the rest of the pack, and browser development is not keeping pace with the increasing size and complexity of...
View ArticleCase Study: How a 2-Second Improvement in Page Load Time More Than Doubled...
Roughly 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned before checkout, and new findings suggest that slow load times are the number-one culprit. A recent survey* of more than 2,500 online consumers in the...
View ArticleBots and Scripts for Abuse
In the last few years, we’ve discovered that many of our customers have been putting up with artificial clients hitting their websites. Scraping competitors’ websites for business intelligence purposes...
View ArticleCase Study: Understanding the Impact of Slow Load Times on Shopping Cart...
Every year, the shopping cart abandonment rate climbs during the holiday season, with analysts expecting to see a peak of 88% in 2013. An estimated one out of five of those carts are abandoned due to...
View ArticleREPORT: State of the Union for Ecommerce Page Speed & Web Performance (Winter...
Our newest quarterly performance state of the union, released earlier this week, analyzes the load time of the top 500 ecommerce sites and compares their current performance to their performance one...
View ArticleTo Err Human, To Automate Secure
“To err is human.” This quote by British poet Alexander Pope gained new meaning to me after reading a follow-up article by Information Week on the massive security breach that the American retailer...
View ArticleWhy Ecommerce Sites That Use a CDN Take Longer to Become Interactive (and Why...
One of the most provocative findings in our latest State of the Union for Ecommerce Web Performance was the fact that using a content delivery network correlated to slower performance for retail sites....
View ArticleEvery Day Is Cyber Monday. Is Your Site Delivering the Best Possible User...
With the allure of Black Friday weekend fading, online retailers are discovering that every day is Cyber Monday. Online shoppers expect deep discounts, free shipping, and a top-drawer user experience...
View ArticleYour Six Favorite Posts of 2014
During the past 12 months, we’ve worked to provide more than application delivery and security solutions. Our goal was (and is) to share knowledge with the IT community so you can assess upcoming...
View ArticleREPORT: State of the Union for Ecommerce Page Speed & Web Performance (Summer...
In the hyper-accelerated world of technology, the modern consumer is bombarded with near-daily news of technological breakthroughs, OS updates, device refreshes and breakneck broadband speeds. With...
View ArticleWhy Are Online Retailers Leaving Millions Of Dollars On The Table?
Online retailers are leaving millions of dollars – yes, millions – on the table. Why is this? In the hyper-competitive world of online commerce sites, every second is absolutely critical in ensuring a...
View ArticleWill Holiday Demand Make or Break Your E-Commerce Site?
As the weather turns and the leaves reveal their polychromatic wonder, I enter this time of year knowing that the holiday season is upon us. Holidays means shopping and like any good technologist, I...
View ArticleeCommerce Closes in on the Three Second Pageload Target
It may be hard to believe, but ecommerce sites have been around in earnest for a little over 20 years – Amazon and eBay were both founded in 1995 (right as the Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers...
View ArticleIt’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Cyber-Attack Season
The luring presence of large bowls of excess Halloween candy laying around my house can only mean one thing: It’s that time of year when retailers are preparing stores (both physical and virtual) for a...
View ArticleHow To Buy Bitcoin
First, what is Bitcoin and where did it come from? Bitcoin (BTC) is a cryptocurrency payment system based off of the blockchain, a core component of the digital currency. The blockchain was introduced...
View ArticleNew Findings: State of the Union for Ecommerce Page Speed and Web Performance...
There are compelling arguments why companies – particularly online retailers – should care about serving faster pages to their users. Countless studies have found an irrefutable connection between load...
View ArticleDéjà vu all Over Again with Page Bloat in the World’s Top 100 Ecommerce Sites
As we do every quarter at Radware, we’re releasing a new “state of the union” report – an in-depth snapshot of web performance of the world’s top ecommerce sites. In our research, we’ve found some...
View ArticleRetail & Web Application Security: What Application-Layer Security Threats...
The retail industry is undergoing a transformative period as the “empowered” consumer, driven by technological advances and breakthroughs, impacts how retailers market, communicate and sell. Retailers...
View ArticleYour Six Favorite Posts of 2014
During the past 12 months, we’ve worked to provide more than application delivery and security solutions. Our goal was (and is) to share knowledge with the IT community so you can assess upcoming...
View ArticleREPORT: State of the Union for Ecommerce Page Speed & Web Performance (Summer...
In the hyper-accelerated world of technology, the modern consumer is bombarded with near-daily news of technological breakthroughs, OS updates, device refreshes and breakneck broadband speeds. With...
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