Question: What is faster than a cheetah?

Here's a list of 10 super fast animals.  But guess what is faster than all of them?

.855 seconds - boom!

Answer:  Sears.com mobile site!!

Yes, the Peregrine Falcon is fast (it can fly, after all).  And the Cheetah, well we know that feline is super-duper fast.  



But, according to InternetRetailer.com, Sears mobile site was lightening fast!!  .855 seconds load time.  BOOM!  




Just like Ricky Bobby says, "If you ain't first, you're last!"





From the article on InternetRetailer.com:


In a study of the response time of the 50 retailers’ mobile commerce sites, Sears Holdings Corp., Costco and Office Depot Inc. topped Dynatrace’s holiday list for the period of Nov. 22 and Dec. 22. All three posted average mobile load times faster than 2 seconds, at .855, 1.551 and 1.874 seconds, respectively.


The faster load times on mobile devices is explained in part by the controlled nature of the mobile survey, as the phones were in an isolated environment with no programs running in the background, Dynatrace says.


Optimizing a mobile site can make a big difference, Jones says, and one way to do that is to limit connections to other web servers. The fastest mobile sites connected to an average of five third-party sites, compared to 22 for the slowest sites. The worst smartphone load time was 17.871 seconds.


Jones also says that as 4G has become more popular mobile users have gotten less patient with poor performance. He points out that the Harris Poll survey revealed 80% of consumers say that they will abandon a mobile app or web site if it is buggy, slow or prone to crashes. Consumers on smartphones, Jones says, now are“just as demanding as anyone sitting in front of their laptop.