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AlertSite Retail Benchmarks

Week of Monday, 08/25/2008 through Sunday, 08/31/2008

Retail
Response Time

Measures how quickly the home page is presented, in seconds.

Rank	Site	Response Time	Rank Last Week
1	eBay Stores	4.2123	1
2	BestBuy	4.5877	2
	Benchmark Average	7.0374
3	Target	7.9365	4
4	Amazon	8.2372	5
5	Wal-Mart	10.2135	3

Elapsed time for all objects including images, JavaScript, Flash and third party objects. Collected from geographically dispersed locations and aggregated.

Retail
Percent Available

Measures percent of time website is accessible by users.

Rank	Site	Percent Available	Rank Last Week
1	Target	100.00	2
2	BestBuy	99.95	4
2	eBay Stores	99.95	1
4	Wal-Mart	99.80	2
	Benchmark Average	99.30
5	Amazon	96.82	5

Measure includes accessibility from multiple global locations. Complete page must be rendered in less than 60 seconds without error.

Retail
Stability (Standard Deviation)

Measures consistency and uniformity of customer experience.

Rank	Site	Stability(Standard Deviation)	Rank Last Week
1	Amazon	2.3172	3
2	BestBuy	2.5782	1
3	eBay Stores	3.5145	2
4	Target	4.0102	4
	Benchmark Average	4.3569
5	Wal-Mart	9.3642	5

Measures how widely spread are the response time values for the week. Websites should attempt to reach the lowest number possible here as an indicator of a more stable web site.