Top 10 Trends and Stats from Thanksgiving Weekend 2013
Thanksgiving weekend 2013 has come and gone. Here are the Top 10 interesting ecommerce and in-store facts and figures from the holiday weekend.
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5 Ways to Improve Site Performance
This holiday season, businesses must focus extensively on application performance and usability, in order to get users to increase transactions. Compuware has compiled the following five suggestions for improving performance and boosting sales.
comScore: Thanksgiving Non-mobile Ecommerce Up 21%, Black Friday up 15%
comScore says Thanksgiving Day ecommerce sales made on non-mobile devices reached $776 million, up 21% from 2012, while Black Friday’s $1.2 billion sales day was a 15% increase over last year.
Branding Brand Says Mobile Commerce Grew on Black Friday
[CLICK HERE for Multichannel Merchant’s Cyber Weekend 2013 coverage] Mobile Visits Grow, but Revenue Explodes: Thanksgiving Day Sales on Smartphone-optimized Websites up 258% (via PR Newswire) PITTSBURGH, Nov. 30, 2013 … Continue Reading →
Mobile Commerce Response Times Slower Than Cyber Weekend 2012
While many merchants optimized their ecommerce sites for growing Cyber Weekend demand, Compuware APM questions whether they have been prepared for the mobile commerce onslaught.
U.S. Retailers See Global Ecommerce Grow on Black Friday
U.S. retailers and brands who use Borderfree’s platform saw their online same-store sales to international consumers rise 50% this Black Friday compared to last year, according to information provided by the global ecommerce technology provider.
IBM’s Jay Henderson Talks About Black Friday Showrooming
Jay Henderson, Strategy Director for IBM Smarter Commerce, talks with Multichannel Merchant’s Tim Parry about ecommerce’s role in Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday 2013 shopping.
IBM: Black Friday Mobile Sales Surge 43%
Record-setting Thanksgiving Day ecommerce sales set the stage for a record Black Friday with online sales growing 18.9% over the same period last year, according to the the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark. The biggest surge came from mobile sales which reached 21.8% of total online sales for Black Friday, a 43% increase.
Adobe: Black Friday Ecommerce Sales Just Miss $2 Billion
Ecommerce sales reached $1.93 billion on Black Friday, an increase of 39% over Black Friday 2012, according to Adobe Digital Index 2013 online shopping data.
5 Last-minute Tips to Prepare for Cyber Monday
With Adobe projecting Cyber Monday sales to pass the $2 billion dollar mark, this is the busiest and potentially most profitable day of the year for ecommerce merchants. Here are 5 last-minute tips to ensure your ecommerce site is ready.