Performance & Software Testing Statistics

Organizational Survey Findings

Issues with application performance could impact corporate revenues by up to 9%. The research also showed that only 42% of organizations were satisfied with the performance of business-critical applications. - Aberdeen study June 2008.

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.

Web Application Load Statistics

Stats published by Nielsen show that social media usage has increased by 82% in the last year,

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).