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Akamai Technologies, Inc., the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, announced the release of the latest State of Online Retail Performance report, a biannual study that analyzes performance metrics for leading retail websites. The report was previously issued by SOASTA, acquired by Akamai in April 2017.
The data, gathered by SOASTA (now part of Akamai), represents one months worth of anonymous user data from top online retailers, equating to approximately 10 billion user visits. The team applied data analytics to generate insights into the intersection of IT, business, and user experience metrics.
Access to an extraordinary amount of user data, as well as the ability to correlate that data with key performance indicators, helped create the only report of its kind in the industry. The Online Retail Performance Report delivers insights into how web performance affects consumers and, ultimately, online businesses. The report explores the magic number for page load times...