The Retailer Web Performance Report Card: Macy's, Vistaprint and CDW

Among the top 50 retailers for which we ran statistics for the first half of December, the benchmark average for response time to load the homepage was 4.5836 seconds. The average for website availability was 99.66 percent, and site stability or standard deviation was 4.7361 seconds. Of the three retailers being spotlighted this month, one really helped the averages (Macy's), another hovered near the averages (Vistaprint) and the third dipped well below the averages (CDW).