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Not every business is based on impulse buys. Amazon is a pretty biased sample there.
by throwaway22032 3y ago
Not every business is based on impulse buys. Amazon is a pretty biased sample there.
- jupp0r 3y agoIs this agreeing with "Of course there are plenty of scenarios where latency does not matter at all." or are you trying to make a point?
- threeseed 3y agoThat latency is correlated with revenue is not exclusive to Amazon. And many people who aren’t impulse buying will not stick around on slow sites.
- pdimitar 3y agoDisagreed, once we're not talking a worldwide shop for non-critical buys like Amazon the picture changes dramatically. Many people on local markets have no choice and will stick around no matter how slow the service is. Evidence: my wife buying our groceries for delivery at home. We have 4-5 choices in our city. All their websites are slow as hell, and I mean adding an item to a cart takes good 5-10 seconds. Search takes 20+ seconds. She curses at them every time yet there's nothing we can do. The alternative is both of us to travel by foot 20 minutes to the local mall and wait on queues. 2-3 times a week. She figured the slow websites are the lesser evil.