Dive Summary:
- The Keynote Mobile performance index for the week ending Dec. 23 ranked Office Depot's mobile site in its top slot, noting that the site loaded 100% of the time with an average wait of 3.31 seconds.
- The site's homepage has six page elements, averaging 70 kilobytes in total page size, which Herman Ng, mobile performance evangelist at Keynote Systems Inc., noted as a major contributing factor to the high ranking.
- Office Depot held on to the No. 1 slot from the previous week, coming in just ahead of Buy.com and Barnes & Noble.
From the article:
"... Meanwhile, Buy.com, which sped up its site last week and moved from No. 11 to No. 8 in the index, jumped ahead even further this week to No. 2. Buy.com’s mobile site loaded in an average of 4.97 seconds and loaded successfully 99.98% of the time for a score of 939. The average load time of all 30 mobile sites was 8.86 seconds and the page load success rate average was 99.24%. The average score was 779. ..."
