How Retailers Can Fight Against Slowing E-Commerce Sites

A typical retail site today takes 6.2 seconds to load its primary content — well short of the ideal load time of three seconds or less. Not only are e-commerce pages too slow to load, they appear to be getting slower rather than faster. Last summer, a typical page took 4.9 seconds to load primary content. This represents a 27 percent slowdown in just one year.