Source: Radware [download page]
Notes: The median load time for home pages of the top 100 US retail websites (as ranked by Alexa) has slowed yet again on a year-over-year basis, increasing from 7.2 seconds in Summer 2013 to 10.7 seconds in Summer 2014. Concurrently, the median time to interact (TTI) – which measures the point at which a page displays its primary interactive content – has also slowed from 4.9 seconds to 6.2 seconds. Radware blames increasing page sizes along with a failure to adequately optimize images. (more…)