Speed demons and slowpokes: These are the travel industry benchmarks

Technology performance company Compuware has released their latest data on site speed, both on mobile and desktop, for various verticals.

The company has tested the speed of hotel/resort, airlines, agents, and car rental companies in the United States travel vertical, and has ranked them according to the response of their digital presences.

In their promo spiel above the results, the company points out that speed is paramount when acquiring, and retaining customers, in an attention-deprived world.

If site performance lags, your customers will either revert to more expensive channels like call centers, or take their business elsewhere. With so many options, including travel aggregators, your web or mobile site is under even greater pressure to perform well.

Gomez Benchmarks rank web and mobile site performance against that of Internet leaders to provide comparisons that will help you compete effectively, enhance your customer experience and ultimately drive sales.

And with Google’s Panda update using site speed as a key ranking metric, speed becomes more than just a customer-service issue – it’s also a marketing consideration as far as search strategy.

Read on for the republished speed demons and slowpokes of the US travel industry, according to Compuware’s internal tests, and consider what impact site speed and performance have on your customer experience.

US Hotel and Resorts –> Site Speed

US Hotel and Resorts –> Search Speed

US Hotel and Resorts –> Mobile Speed

US Airlines –> Site Speed

US Airlines –> Search Speed

US Airlines –> Mobile Speed

US Car Rental –> Site Speed

US Car Rental –> Search Speed

US Car Rental –> Mobile Speed

US Online Travel Agency –> Site Speed

US Online Travel Agency –> Hotel Search Speed

US Online Travel Agency –> Flight Search Speed

US Online Travel Agency –> Mobile Speed

 

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Nick Vivion About Nick Vivion

Nick Vivion is a reporter for Tnooz, based in New Orleans, USA.

His passion for travel technology led him to travel around the world shooting travel videos for Current TV and Lonely Planet TV in 2006 and 2007.

He shot on Mini-DV, edited on a white MacBook, uploaded and shared online as he traveled. His moxie for travel video has resulted in over two million views on his YouTube partner channel.

In addition to travel, Nick is co-founder of one of the web’s most talked about LGBT media sites, Unicorn Booty, and is opening a bricks-and-mortar restaurant called Booty's in New Orleans – serving street food from around the world.

Comments

  1. mobileguy says:

    Without any discussion of how they came up with these values, they may as well be random numbers. The mobile numbers themselves don’t say whether these are mobile web or mobiles app measurements and whether the speed is for hotels, flights or cars or some combination.

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