Following on from this morning’s post about Cyber Monday, Keynote Systems monitored the performance of the UK’s top retailers’ sites to measure their speed and reliability on Monday, 7th. It would appear that many of them are making a concerted effort in this area.

Results as follows:

Performance (seconds)

Selfridges 0.97
BHS 1.26
Argos 1.55
Toys ‘R’ Us 1.57
Debenhams 1.78
Hamleys 1.82
Littlewoods 1.99
Tesco Direct 2.00
House of Fraser 2.06
Amazon 2.38
John Lewis 2.65
Play 2.77
HMV 4.73

Availability (%)

Argos 100.00
BHS 100.00
Debenhams 100.00
Hamleys 100.00
House of Fraser 100.00
Play 100.00
Selfridges 100.00
Tesco direct 100.00
Amazon 98.64
John Lewis 98.61
Toys ‘R’ Us 98.17
HMV 97.33
Littlewoods 93.67