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Average Uptime for the whole period
Best regards, and takeITeasy™ with WebSitePulse™
Iavor Marinoff, CEO
Methodology:
The 2024 Mother's Day Reports reflect a complete web transaction, representative for the End Users' interactions with a website. The reporting period covers the dates between May 5h and May 13th, 2024. Performance and availability measurements are made for a typical multi-step web transaction at 15 minute monitoring interval, every day 24/7. The WebSitePulse application monitoring service is used to collect data and to create the reports.
The steps in each transaction are comparable for all websites, and reflect the real online shopper experience. The simultaneous monitoring is performed from 3 US-based locations of the WebSitePulse monitoring network: San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL, and Washington, DC. In case of a detected malfunction or unavailability, the system performs automated error verification from 3 independent resources and only after the above procedure is performed and has returned consistent results, the detected error is confirmed, recorded, and included in the daily performance reports. In these cases, an advanced WebSitePulse exclusive feature comes into play - Forced Monitoring -, which automatically switches to a 3 minute monitoring interval for increased accuracy.
About WebSitePulse:
WebSitePulse is a leading provider of global, independent, and objective availability and performance monitoring of web sites, servers, network components, web applications, e-business- and email round-trip transactions.
Contact:
For more information about this report please contact:
George T., CTO
phone: 1-407-380-1600
email:
Reproduction:
WebSitePulse launched the Performance and Uptime Reports program to keep the general public and the Internet community informed about the performance of specific websites and the challenges their webmasters, owners and operators are facing on a daily basis, especially when the web traffic intensifies due to some special events through the year. Some of the most popular web destinations, related to each particular event, are selected for the purpose of the Reports, and data from their performance measurements is made available on the WebSitePulse public website.
With the intention to broadly disseminate this information for the benefit of the Internet community, we encourage the use of this information without prior approval and under the following Terms and Conditions:
The Data from the performance measurements cannot be changed or manipulated and should be used "as is".
Websitepulse 2024 Mother's Day Performance & Uptime Report Summary
Mother's Day 2024 has now passed, and it surprisingly marked a 6.2% fall —the first annual decrease
in six years and the most significant decline since 2009. Nevertheless, $33.5 billion was recorded in
spending for this year’s Mother’s Day, resulting in the average spend per household falling to
$254.04, where 84% of people celebrated this occasion.
Most of the money was spent on jewelry ($7.0 billion), electronics ($5.9 billion), special outings ($3.5 billion), gift cards ($3.2 billion), and flowers ($3.5 billion).
Now that the holiday weekend is over, we have finished monitoring 11 of the most popular gift- shopping websites for our 2024 Mother's Day Report. For this Performance Report, WebSitePulse, as usual, measures the website's home page performance and a complete web transaction representative for the end user's interactions with a website.
The report measures Uptime and Response Time as the most critical metrics for the availability and reliability of any web-based operation, which is crucial for the end-user's overall online experience. Measurements of the multi-step online transactions are made every 15 minutes, simultaneously, from 3 different monitoring locations: Washington, DC (US East Coast), San Francisco, CA (US West Coast), and Chicago, IL (US Central).
The overall performance of most of the monitored gift-shopping websites demonstrated their preparedness to meet the challenges of the expected heavier web traffic during Mother's Day week. We have found out that the average daily response time from all monitored websites was 2.176 sec., which is 0.138 seconds slower than last year's. The daily average responses by location are as follows:
Compared to last year's performance, the three leaders decreased their response time by an average of 0.21 seconds, while the slowest site this year performed worse than the previous year by 0.393 seconds on average. The daily average uptime for the entire group of 11 websites for the 2024 Mother's Day shopping season was 98.719%. The daily average uptime by location is as follows:
Average Response times for the whole periodMost of the money was spent on jewelry ($7.0 billion), electronics ($5.9 billion), special outings ($3.5 billion), gift cards ($3.2 billion), and flowers ($3.5 billion).
Now that the holiday weekend is over, we have finished monitoring 11 of the most popular gift- shopping websites for our 2024 Mother's Day Report. For this Performance Report, WebSitePulse, as usual, measures the website's home page performance and a complete web transaction representative for the end user's interactions with a website.
The report measures Uptime and Response Time as the most critical metrics for the availability and reliability of any web-based operation, which is crucial for the end-user's overall online experience. Measurements of the multi-step online transactions are made every 15 minutes, simultaneously, from 3 different monitoring locations: Washington, DC (US East Coast), San Francisco, CA (US West Coast), and Chicago, IL (US Central).
The overall performance of most of the monitored gift-shopping websites demonstrated their preparedness to meet the challenges of the expected heavier web traffic during Mother's Day week. We have found out that the average daily response time from all monitored websites was 2.176 sec., which is 0.138 seconds slower than last year's. The daily average responses by location are as follows:
- Washington DC (US East Coast) – 1.928 sec
- San Francisco, CA (US West Coast) – 2.539 sec
- Chicago, IL (US Central) – 2.195 sec
Compared to last year's performance, the three leaders decreased their response time by an average of 0.21 seconds, while the slowest site this year performed worse than the previous year by 0.393 seconds on average. The daily average uptime for the entire group of 11 websites for the 2024 Mother's Day shopping season was 98.719%. The daily average uptime by location is as follows:
- Washington DC (US East Coast) – 98.716%
- San Francisco, CA (US West Coast) – 98.716%
- Chicago, IL (US Central) – 98.721%
| # | Target | San Francisco | Chicago | Washington | Avg. resp. time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | berries.com | 0.971 | 0.987 | 0.562 | 0.840 |
| 2 | fromyouflowers.com | 1.656 | 0.887 | 0.987 | 1.176 |
| 3 | 1800flowers.com | 1.514 | 1.518 | 0.741 | 1.258 |
| 4 | gifttree.com | 1.695 | 1.390 | 1.365 | 1.483 |
| 5 | sees.com | 1.794 | 1.474 | 1.645 | 1.638 |
| 6 | proflowers.com | 2.193 | 2.689 | 2.145 | 2.342 |
| 7 | personalizationmall.com | 2.744 | 2.321 | 2.542 | 2.536 |
| 8 | urbanstems.com | 3.153 | 2.353 | 2.176 | 2.561 |
| 9 | teleflora.com | 2.737 | 3.543 | 3.110 | 3.130 |
| 10 | gifts.com | 4.615 | 2.884 | 2.230 | 3.243 |
| 11 | helzberg.com | 5.470 | 4.273 | 3.967 | 4.570 |
Average Uptime for the whole period
| # | Target | San Francisco | Chicago | Washington | Avg. uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1800flowers.com | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% |
| 2 | proflowers.com | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% |
| 3 | urbanstems.com | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% |
| 4 | berries.com | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% |
| 5 | gifttree.com | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% |
| 6 | personalizationmall.com | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% |
| 7 | teleflora.com | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% |
| 8 | helzberg.com | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% | 100.000% |
| 9 | gifts.com | 100.000% | 100.000% | 99.956% | 99.985% |
| 10 | sees.com | 99.949% | 100.000% | 100.000% | 99.983% |
| 11 | fromyouflowers.com | 99.338% | 99.270% | 99.277% | 99.295% |
Best regards, and takeITeasy™ with WebSitePulse™
Iavor Marinoff, CEO
Methodology:
The 2024 Mother's Day Reports reflect a complete web transaction, representative for the End Users' interactions with a website. The reporting period covers the dates between May 5h and May 13th, 2024. Performance and availability measurements are made for a typical multi-step web transaction at 15 minute monitoring interval, every day 24/7. The WebSitePulse application monitoring service is used to collect data and to create the reports.
The steps in each transaction are comparable for all websites, and reflect the real online shopper experience. The simultaneous monitoring is performed from 3 US-based locations of the WebSitePulse monitoring network: San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL, and Washington, DC. In case of a detected malfunction or unavailability, the system performs automated error verification from 3 independent resources and only after the above procedure is performed and has returned consistent results, the detected error is confirmed, recorded, and included in the daily performance reports. In these cases, an advanced WebSitePulse exclusive feature comes into play - Forced Monitoring -, which automatically switches to a 3 minute monitoring interval for increased accuracy.
About WebSitePulse:
WebSitePulse is a leading provider of global, independent, and objective availability and performance monitoring of web sites, servers, network components, web applications, e-business- and email round-trip transactions.
Contact:
For more information about this report please contact:
George T., CTO
phone: 1-407-380-1600
email:
Reproduction:
WebSitePulse launched the Performance and Uptime Reports program to keep the general public and the Internet community informed about the performance of specific websites and the challenges their webmasters, owners and operators are facing on a daily basis, especially when the web traffic intensifies due to some special events through the year. Some of the most popular web destinations, related to each particular event, are selected for the purpose of the Reports, and data from their performance measurements is made available on the WebSitePulse public website.
With the intention to broadly disseminate this information for the benefit of the Internet community, we encourage the use of this information without prior approval and under the following Terms and Conditions:
- WebSitePulse should be referred as the "Source" of the information;
- WebSitePulse should be acknowledged as the owner of the copyrights of the information in the Reports;
- The texts of the Reports could be changed or altered to better suit the needs and the style of the publisher without prior notice to WebSitePulse. However, the integrity and the meaning of the information should be preserved;
The Data from the performance measurements cannot be changed or manipulated and should be used "as is".
