CyberMonday Victim: Costco Melts Down
Written by Evan SchumanNovember 27th, 2007
In the middle of CyberMonday, Costco.com melted down, with its time for a full transaction soaring to 200 seconds, from a typical Costco average of about 18 seconds, according to Matt Poepsel, performance strategies VP for Web traffic tracking firm Gomez.
Although Costco fared far worse, Gomez also saw sharply slower performances from CompUSA, ToysRUs and TigerDirect, Poepsel said. "A couple of retailers kind of fell apart today," Poepsel said in a Monday afternoon interview.
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