In July and August of 2012, Strangeloop tested the load time of the home pages of 2,000 leading retail websites, as ranked by Alexa.com. It turned out that median pages load was 9% slower than it was a year ago!

In comparison with November 2011, the median load time to a home page in the Alexa Retail 2000 using Internet Explorer 9 has been decelerated by 9% for first-time visitors and 18% for repeated visitors.

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Taking into consideration the fast growing e-commerce market, this time I included more platforms into my survey (20 against 14 in the previous study). It should be reminded that we use not absolute values. The analysis is carried out according to the number of stores that got into Alexa Top 1 Million.

Even with a greater number of platforms compared in the chart, Magento continues its rise and dominance as the industry’s most popular platform. In comparison with the previous survey, the number of stores based on Community Edition has increased by over 500 ones (5699 sites in August). As a result, it has undeniable advantage with 26.2% of the market at the moment. The usage of Enterprise Edition has also risen from 801 to 1005 sites. All versions of Magento have 31.4% in total that makes the platform beyond the reach.

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To be aware of the current reality and keep pace with the modern tendencies, aheadWorks has researched the popularity of e-Commerce platforms. It’s far from a comprehensive analysis but we hope it’s a good indication of the actual situation at the market. Having studied and compared the results of the recent surveys, we came to some appealing conclusions.

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Being a leading provider of Magento extensions, aheadWorks certainly takes great interest in Magento position among different eCommerce software. We are also interested to see if Magento can retain or perhaps even extend its lead.

Recently, we’ve come across an informative eCommerce survey made by our colleague in Magento promotion Tom Robertshaw in June 2011.

The top 1 million Alexa sites were analyzed through the use of special signatures that match for different types of eCommerce software. At the same time, the research took into account the country those sites were located in and whether they were using HTML 5. During this survey there were found 25,592 online stores.

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Today is December 24, 2009 and it means that the survey which we announced three weeks ago is over. Let’s sum up!

Many people have respond to our survey and we would like to express profound gratitude to everybody who has found time to answer our few questions – every opinion is very valuable for us. Thanks a lot!

And now the most exciting part – who has become the winner? As we have already mentioned, there were many contenders but only 3 lucky men will get one of aheadWorks extensions per their choice. They have been selected on random basis and their names are Dat Tran, Andrew Maury and Walter Vidotto!

Congratulations! We will contact the winners by email.

About a week ago aheadWorks announced a survey with a chance to win any our extension per your choice. Everything you should do is to answer a few quick questions.

Today we remind you that only 10 days are left! Hurry up to become one of 3 winners! The survey ends on December 24, 2009.

We are waiting for your answers and the prizes are waiting for you!

aheadWorks gives all its customers a chance to win any our extension per your choice. Everything you should do is to answer a few quick questions.

Hurry up to become one of 3 winners! The survey ends on December 24, 2009.

We are waiting for your answers and the prizes are waiting for you!