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Monitis Survey Finds Over Half of Frequent Online Shoppers Cancel Orders Due to Slow Websites

free-website-monitoringCloud and web application monitoring provider finds that successful ecommerce sales depend on customers having a positive website experience

Nov. 19, 2012 – Monitis™, a leading cloud and web application monitoring software provider, today announced the results of a new survey which found that 56% of consumers who spend more than two hours per week shopping online have cancelled an order due to an error or slow response time. The survey also explored typical online shopping habits, factors that are considered when choosing an online vendor, and behavior when confronted with retail websites that are not functioning correctly.

The independent survey which polled 1,006 U.S. online shoppers was conducted by Opinion Matters on behalf of Monitis. The results highlight a number of common online shopping patterns and uncover the major pain points that consumers have when ordering online. As the holiday shopping season approaches – with Cyber Monday on the horizon on November 26 – this insight can be used to help e-retailers think beyond simply ensuring that their websites are up, moving towards assessing how effectively they are able to do business and putting more focus on strengthening the aspects of their online stores that will prevent customer and transaction losses resulting from sub-optimal performance and customer experience

Vendor Loyalty Scarce Online

Almost three-quarters (74%) of all online shoppers said that they would switch to a competing online vendor if they could find a better user experience and faster website than the one they currently use. Frequent online shoppers are even less tolerant of slow e-retail websites. 86% of consumers who spend two or more hours shopping each week say that they would abandon their chosen online vendor if they found a faster competitor.

Other key findings from the survey include:

  • 81% of all respondents listed convenience as the number one reason for choosing to shop online rather than making purchases at brick and mortar stores, while only 61% say that price is the most important factor.
  • More than half of all respondents (56%) also indicated that website usability is an important factor when comparing one retail website to another, coming in just behind price and reputation.
  • 61% of all online shoppers would leave a web page and search for a competing vendor if it took longer than 30 seconds to load.
  • The most popular time to shop online (40% of all respondents) is actually during typical 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. work hours while the next largest group (32%) of online shoppers typically shops in the early evening between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.

“Simply avoiding downtime is often the primary goal for web developers and designers when maintaining websites, but as the holiday rush has shifted to online stores, success depends less on the minimum threshold of uptime and more on meeting the various other expectations of shoppers, to keep them coming back,” said Hovhannes Avoyan, General Manager at Monitis. “Consumers turn to online vendors for convenience, so it’s critical that e-retailers ensure a positive shopping experience by focusing on website usability and speed.”

A copy of the full survey results is available upon request, please email info@monitis.com.

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Hovhannes Avoyan is the CEO of Monitis, Inc., a provider of on-demand systems management and monitoring software to 50,000 users spanning small businesses and Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to Monitis, he served as General Manager and Director of Development at prominent web portal Lycos Europe, where he grew the Lycos Armenia group from 30 people to over 200, making it the company's largest development center. Prior to Lycos, Avoyan was VP of Technology at Brience, Inc. (based in San Francisco and acquired by Syniverse), which delivered mobile internet content solutions to companies like Cisco, Ingram Micro, Washington Mutual, Wyndham Hotels , T-Mobile , and CNN. Prior to that, he served as the founder and CEO of CEDIT ltd., which was acquired by Brience. A 24 year veteran of the software industry, he also runs Sourcio cjsc, an IT consulting company and startup incubator specializing in web 2.0 products and open-source technologies.

Hovhannes is a senior lecturer at the American Univeristy of Armenia and has been a visiting lecturer at San Francisco State University. He is a graduate of Bertelsmann University.

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