Global sites 7% slower than last year as social plugins hamper speed
The growing trend for sites to use third party widgets and content heavy pages is leading to slower load times for websites around the world, according to new research.
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Mary Meeker’s Internet trends: Get ready for a hands-free future
Internet users are talking to their phones much more, meaning that brands need to prepare for a hands-free future in digital, according to the annual report from digital guru Mary Meeker.
Getting checkout abandoners back: Half return to buy same products at a later date
A third (32%) of online shoppers who abandoned their shopping did so at the checkout, yet the majority of site abandoners remain loyal and return to the same retailer to complete their purchase at a later time (53%).
Google I/O round-up: Android N, smart cars and “Daydream” VR
This year’s Google I/O conference saw the internet giant unveil a raft of new platforms and features. We look back at the top nine announcements from the event, from smart homes to streaming apps…
KFC partners Baidu for robot powered store in China
Chinese internet giant Baidu and KFC have teamed up to launch a concept store in Shanghai that uses conversational robots as servers.
UK ecommerce trends: Clothing drives sales but growth slows
Online retail inthe UK continued its double digit growth this year with purchases made online achieving a year-on-year increase of 11% in April, but growth has slowed, according to new research.
The rise of cross-channel attribution: Shifting staff is key [INFOGRAPHIC]
The vast majority of marketing organisations have begun to significantly accelerate efforts to adopt advanced attribution methods, to the tune of a surveyed 78 percent committed to deploying cross-channel attribution within the next two years, according to a new survey.
Android Pay finally goes live in UK
Android Pay has officially launched in the UK, following the launch of Apple Pay in the country last year.
Google puts shopping ads in image search for first time
Google has added shopping ads within its image search results, showing related products next to Google Images.
Forget Black Friday: $5bn “Black FiveDay” coming this year- report
With Black Friday last year breaking the £1bn online shopping day mark, this year, Salmon is this year predicting that Black Friday will indeed become a ‘Black FiveDay’ and see a record breaking £5 billion spent online from Thursday 24th November through to Cyber Monday on the 28th.