Importance of
Site Performance
Although opportunities for retailers to augment their sales in holiday season are plentiful, many retailers underperform because of a failure to adequately plan and organize their holiday campaigns.
Performance factors such as load time play a crucial role during high-pressure festive seasons. The load time can have a huge impact on conversions and customer satisfaction. For example, Amazon and Walmart increased revenue 1% for every 100ms of improvement.
On mobile, for example, shoppers will quickly abandon a site for poor performance. Infact, the optimum load time for a mobile site is about four seconds – that’s not easy to maintain during peak shopping times.
The load time can have a huge impact on conversions & customer satisfaction as shown below:

Most of the Retailers’ holiday sales is a large chunk of their annual revenues, in many cases up to 30 percent, so achieving the highest possible holiday ROI is critical for success.

Challenges of Performance Tuning in IBM Watson Commerce
Trace and Logging Control
Load and Stress Testing
JVM (Java Virtual Machine) Tuning
Memory leaks Control
The environment has multiple components
Need expertise in both development and administration
Webserver, Application server and database layers performance bottlenecks
How Royal Cyber can help?
Get our Exclusive Holiday Readiness Package for Your IBM Watson Commerce Site
- Assessments of Ecommerce Site for Holiday Readiness
- Infrastructure Improvements
- Database Maintenance
- Plan & Set Technical Benchmarks for upcoming Season
- Integration Strategy
- Caching Strategy
- Performance Improvements
- SEO Optimization
- 24/7 Tech Support during Holiday Season
- Load Testing
Package Details
Performance Tuning
SEO Process
Performance Testing

Begin planning for the online holiday shopping season. Get your Store all set for the 2018 Holiday Season.