Performance & Software Testing Statistics
Organizational Survey Findings
Issues with application performance could impact corporate revenues by up to 9%.
Amazon states that for every 100ms of latency, they lose 1% of their sales.
Google found that an extra 500ms in latency cost them 20% of their search traffic.
60% of organizations were not satisfied with the performance of business critical applications. - Aberdeen survey March 2009.
Better performing website (speed improvements) increased revenue by 7-12%, increased page views by 25%, and reduced hardware by 50%. - Shopzilla actual stats from a site redesign.
50% of surveyed companies said they lost revenue opportunities because of poorly performing applications. - Aberdeen survey March 2009.
Business performance starts to decline when mission-critical applications reach the baseline of 5.1 seconds of response time delay. - Aberdeen November 2008 report.
40% of developers' time is spent debugging applications and trying to reproduce problems. 50% of production problems could be avoided by a more proactive approach to Application Performance Management - Dynatrace newsletter
58% of respondents said they experience lower employee satisfaction due to poor application performance. - Aberdeen survey March 2009.
The root cause of 56 percent of all errors identified in projects is introduced in the requirements phase. - Software Test & Performance newsletter.
31% of survey companies found that their IT staff also lost effectiveness due to subpar application performance. - Aberdeen survey March 2009.
Organizations are planning to increase the number of business critical applications by 67% over the next 12 months (from six on average to 10 applications). - Aberdeen survey March 2009.
6o% of companies admit that they do not have any performance management processes installed or what they have is ineffective.
50% of companies who answered that they have performance management processes admitted that they are doing it only in a reactive way when problems occur.
33% of all companies surveyed said that management is not supporting performance management properly.
10% of surveyed companies spend up to half of their development time troubleshooting problems.
50% of application problems are discovered in production – when those problems have impacted end users and are most expensive to resolve.
66% of companies are convinced that shorter release cycles, more complex architectures and other factors will make application performance management get worse not better.
Web Application Load Statistics
Facebook serves more than 2 million ‘Like’ buttons per second (June 2010).
Stats published by Nielsen show that social media usage has increased by 82% from 2009 to 2010.
Twitter was the fastest-growing social networking site in December 2009, during which it had 18.1 million unique visitors. That’s up from 2.7 million unique visitors in December 2008. Still, month-over-month, unique visitors decreased 5%, lending credence to the notion that the microblogging site’s popularity may be flatlining.
In December 2009, Facebook was the most popular social networking site globally, with 67% of social media fans logging in.
People spend close to six hours per month on Facebook (beginning 2010).
