Lagging Website Performance Will Cost You Money, Period

First, the benchmark average for website availability among the top 50 retailers so far this month is 99.76 percent, holding steady from the same period last month. Admirably, 17 retailers tied for the No. 1 spot with 100 percent site availability, but unfortunately none of our highlighted retailers are among them. The benchmark average for response time is 4.5401 seconds, up just a tenth of a second from this time a month ago. However, with the average online visitor not waiting more than three seconds for a page to load, there's some work to be done.