/ E-Retailers

Following Friday fiasco, Amazon.com site once again down for the count

Following its Friday downtime of nearly two hours, Amazon.com experienced availability and performance issues yesterday. The site was down to 30% availability mid-morning and 68% late morning and early afternoon. Its U.K. site also went down.

Posted 06/10/2008Bill BriggsPost a comment

/ Technology

How performance monitoring caught a potential $100,000 e-commerce error

The performance monitoring service from AlertSite detected a shopping cart failure at iHerb.com in time to minimize significant loss of order traffic.

Posted 02/27/2008Don DavisPost a comment

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/ Marketing

Holiday web performance at 26 leading online retailers improved

Web performance at 26 leading online retailers improved overall during the holiday season, with the top seven performing sites having 99% availability, according to web site performance monitoring company Keynote Systems Inc.

Posted 02/01/2008Paul DemeryPost a comment

/ Technology

Amazon.com falls offline during mid-day on Monday

Amazon.com, the largest online retailer in terms of sales, was “totally inaccessible” for 36 minutes yesterday afternoon, from 2:07 p.m. to 2:43 p.m. Eastern time, web site monitoring company AlertSite reports.

Posted 08/22/2006Paul DemeryPost a comment

/ Marketing

Gap still hasn’t filled its downtime gap

Gap Inc. is overhauling its e-commerce sites with new personalization tools and upgrades, but all or a portion of its web stores have been offline for a week, prompting performance analysts to ask what’s going on.

Posted 08/31/2005Mark BrohanPost a comment

/ Marketing

Web analytics are moving from the web site to the web route

Web retailers are adding a new type of analytics to their e-commerce and information technology platform – route technology analytic tools that spot and fix the problems that lead to network failure and site downtime. The network causes 15% of failures.

Posted 09/16/2004Kurt PetersPost a comment

Retail site performance getting worse, not better

In a surprise finding, the number of e-commerce sites that don`t adeptly handle customer load and dial-up access to keep site outages to a minimum is increasing, Keynote Systems says in its annual study of site performance.

Posted 09/01/2006Internet RetailerPost a comment

/ Press Release

AlertSite Unveils Industry’s Most Flexible Pricing for Web Site Performance Management

Usage Based Monitoring saves companies money by charging only for the monitoring they use COCONUT CREEK, Fla.-October 7, 2009-When it comes to Web site performance management, locked-in pricing plans, fixed monitoring schedules, and monthly service fees are things of the past. Today AlertSite® introduced the industry’s most flexible pricing plan for Web site performance management, Usage Based Monitoring. Based on a measurement credit purchasing...

Posted 10/08/2009