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UK lags behind Germany for speed of mobile retail sites
Research into the preformance of mobile retail websites across Europe has found that the UK lags behind Germany for speed of loading.
The study carried about by internet and mobile cloud monitoring specialist Keynote, tracked the mobile site performance of 24 of the top retailers across eight countries.
Results for September show that the UK sites monitored – Next, Tesco, Marks & Spencer and John Lewis – improved overall in terms of their mobile performance. However, some sites struggled with availability. Tesco’s mobile site came in last with a poor average success rate of only 93.55% for the month.
German retailers outperformed all of the other sites monitored in the response time category with OTTO, Aldi and Amazon (DE) securing three of the top four spots. OTTO was the quickest site to load with an average response time of 4.49 seconds.
Carrefour was the poorest performing mobile site with an average availability of 99.29% and a very slow response time of 56.06 seconds.
Robert Castley, lead solutions consultant at Keynote Systems said. “This year more than ever before, we’re going to see a huge number of consumers conducting their Christmas shopping on their mobiles – whether it’s for research, browsing, comparing prices or actually making purchases. However, if consumers have to wait for more than ten seconds for a mobile site home page to load, it’s unlikely they’ll have enough faith in the retailer to complete a transaction from their mobile phone.”
He added: “It’s no longer acceptable for retailers to expect mobile shoppers to navigate around a Web site that is not configured for their mobile device.”
The mobile sites were measured using a webkit based smart phone browser every hour from London, Nürnberg, Paris, San Francisco, New York, Stockholm, Sydney and Tokyo.
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