Web Optimization

Optimizing the customer journey regularly tops the list of priorities for retailers, and it seems like 2019 was the year that those efforts started to pay off. The second annual State of Customer Journey Optimization (CJO) report from Yieldify reveals a step-change from 2018: where only 62 percent of marketers were satisfied with their optimization of…

Holiday spending makes or breaks the retail year. Less critical but also important are events like Mother’s Day, Father's Day, Valentine’s Day and others. Physical and digital stores go all-out to provide a great shopping experience during these times. Yet holiday 2019 repeated a pattern that has been persistent since online shopping began: websites or…

In March, we examined the impact of “rogue” mobile browsers that look like Chrome (but aren’t) on retailers’ digital performance, their user experiences, and their bottom lines. Now, new data looks at the performance of three Chromium-based browsers — Google Chrome, Samsung Internet, and the Miui Browser by Xiaomi — and how they stack up…

Most retailers are familiar with how A/B testing can help them optimize different elements of their website to increase engagement, conversions and, ultimately, revenue. From product recommendations to banner images to discounting levels, there's almost an infinite number of elements that can be tested to improve the experience of each site visitor. Most retailers at…

When it comes to driving digital return on investment from the holiday shopping season, there are things you can’t control, and things you can. One of the things you can’t control is the shorter season this year, which will deprive retailers of six days to capitalize on the gift-giving mood. Another thing that’s out of…

Late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning, both Nordstrom Rack and Costco were experiencing issues with their websites as consumers frantically shopped the Black Friday deals in advance. Business Insider was first alerted to these site crashes by web optimization company Yottaa. Consumers have taken to social media to complain that they were unable to complete orders online…

There’s a reason why the shopping season after Nov. 1 feels like the Super Bowl of retailing. According to industry data, almost half of all retailers’ sales occur between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31. The newest forecast from eMarketer predicts U.S. retail sales for the 2019 holiday season will climb 3.8 percent to $1.008 trillion, with…

As retailers ramp up their planning for the 2019 holiday season, they need to prepare for a number of factors that can negatively impact website performance. It’s not enough to simply ensure there's sufficient network capacity for the traffic they're forecasting. First and foremost is security, and preventing the debilitating performance problems, including outages, that…

Analysts predict global enterprises will spend nearly $2 trillion on digital transformation by 2022. With digital initiatives and technology becoming ubiquitous with business today, one would think that companies would be more than ready for a world where virtually every touchpoint with customers is digital. Unfortunately, the fact that Target, British Airways, Facebook, and Twitter…

Holiday shopping season is here! In fact, holiday shopping launched in … July?!  According to our research at Bazaarvoice, almost 20 percent of consumers planned to start shopping midsummer during Amazon Prime Day and competing “Black Friday in July” sales. Luckily, 80 percent of us are stragglers and are still doing our shopping in the fall…