UK online retailers not ready for Christmas surge

Online shopping has been enjoying something of a boom thanks to the pandemic, but a new report indicates that not all retailer sites are as good as they could be. In a test of the websites of over 250 UK online retailers, Edge Testing Solutions looked at factors including, load time, navigation tools, image quality and broken links. It finds that load speed is a key factor, with 16 percent of landing pages taking on average ten seconds to fully load with three sites taking longer than 20 seconds. Also 85 percent scored a 'C' or lower on Google's speed… [Continue Reading]