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Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Five European Luxury Fashion Brands
Forrester evaluated the transactional websites of five European luxury fashion brands — Burberry, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Hermes, and Louis Vuitton — using our Website Functionality...

As Amazon.com has grown aggressively in recent years, expanded into diverse businesses, and achieved profitability, its impact on the eBusiness and retail sectors is now top of mind. For many...


Benchmarks: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
This is the second of two reports that detail the findings from "The State Of Retailing Online, 2011," a Shop.org research survey conducted by Forrester Research. Specific topics covered in this...

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four US Luxury Department Stores
Forrester applied its Website Functionality Benchmark evaluation methodology to the top four US luxury department stores: Barneys New York, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Saks Fifth Avenue. These...

Using Personal Community Elements To Provide A Differentiated Experience
Backcountry.com, a high-end outdoor apparel retailer, was looking for a way to differentiate customer interactions in a tight competitive space. It chose to roll out a deep community-based...
Traffic Has Increased And The Channel's Matured, But Proving Incrementality Remains A Challenge
Customers are flocking to affiliate deal sites that offer promotional coupons and offer codes. The slowdown in the economy, advances in technology, and a more favorable consumer mindset toward...
Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Websites Of Five Australian Consumer Electronics Retailers
Consumer electronics retailers in Australia face many challenges, but online retail is booming despite the relatively modest feature set provided by most Australian sites. To dig deeper, Forrester...
Despite A Thriving Online Market, Multichannel Retail Is Still An Untapped Opportunity For German Retailers
The German online retail market is the second largest in Europe. Amazon.de and eBay are dominant forces, with major German consumer brands selling through those sites, and others following suit...

Solving The Growing Content Challenge Through A Cocktail Of Solutions
Commerce organizations are drowning in content. Their catalogs have grown, the sources of the product content propagated, and site versions divide and multiply across geography, microsites, and...

Many of Australia's largest traditional retailers have done little more than experiment with eCommerce. As a result, the industry has grown used to saying that Australia lags other developed nations...
Top UK Grocers
Forrester evaluated the grocery Web sites of the four largest UK grocers — Asda, Sainsbury's, Tesco, and Waitrose — using our Web Site Functionality Benchmark methodology. The results:...
Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark To The Sites Of Four US Online Grocery Stores
Forrester evaluated the grocery websites of the four most frequently used online grocers based on Forrester Consumer Technographics® data — AmazonFresh, FreshDirect, Peapod, and Safeway...

An Empowered Report
This second part of Forrester's annual survey conducted in partnership with Shop.org of Web retailers covers benchmark data pertaining to key eCommerce metrics, profitability, and spend level on...