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Black Friday '14: E-commerce Pages Far Slower Than They Were in 2013

Posted by timothy on from the scarce-resources dept.

An anonymous reader writes Black Friday news kicked off this weekend quite early when Best Buy was hit with a massive outage, but it turns out that was only half the story. The top 50 e-commerce websites were slower overall this year compared to last, suggesting customers were frustrated even if they could get to their favorite shopping site. Web performance monitoring company Catchpoint Systems looked at aggregate performance this weekend and compared it to the same timeframe in 2013. The results are notable: desktop web pages were 19.85 percent slower, while mobile web pages were a whopping 57.21 percent slower.

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  1. I did not participate by SternisheFan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think a big screen is worth dying for.

  2. Re:But why? by The+New+Guy+2.0 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think it's because FIOS, U-Verse, and Google Fiber all had good years worth of picking up subscribers, so customers want their pages faster and the server-side people didn't upgrade.

  3. Too much coding on the pages by Karmashock · · Score: 5, Interesting

    More of the coding needs to be server side or not exist at all.

    The worst is the ads. I turned on NoScript and so many pages just fly now because the stupid javascript isn't allowed to run.

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    1. Re:Too much coding on the pages by sound+vision · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I recently installed NoScript for security reasons, but I was glad to find the speed improvements too. Also, the NoScript's domain list has shed some light on how many scripts really are on some of these web pages. They have their own scripts, plus several social networking sites, random CDNs, Google analytics, a couple of ad services... Then you hit "temporarily allow all scripts" and the NoScript list shows even more domains and you realize the scripts are being chain-loaded. Some of these sites end up with 25 domains listed. That means you are waiting on 25 servers to respond, 25 DNS lookups, before the scripts even get to executing, which is even worse.