Mobile Commerce
BigCommerce UX Tweak: AMP Images Not Displaying
September 20, 2018 | Brian Antczak | UX Tweaks
What To Do If AMP Images Are Broken On Stencil Have AMP enabled on your BigCommerce Stencil site? Great! BigCommerce recently became the first ecommerce platform to offer native support for AMP, meaning it’s easier than ever for merchants to develop AMP pages for their stores. In case you need a refresher: AMP are super-fast,…
Holiday Checklist For BigCommerce Merchants (2018 Edition)
September 4, 2018 | Brian Antczak | BigCommerce News
Sell More On BigCommerce This Holiday Season The holiday season comes early for ecommerce merchants. While others are enjoying the final days of beach vacations or sending their kids off to school, you’re switching into business mode to ready yourself for your busiest season. It might seem daunting, but don’t worry. There are plenty of…
Mobile Page Speed Test For Ecommerce Sites
March 6, 2018 | Brian Antczak | Google Updates
See How Your Page Speed Stacks Up To Your Competitors On the heels of an early 2018 announcement that page speed would become a ranking factor on mobile, Google has rolled out a new tool dedicated to helping ecommerce merchants measure and quantify their mobile page speed. Not only does the new tool measure your…
Optimizing The BigCommerce Checkout User Experience
February 27, 2018 | Brian Antczak | Apps
Your Ecommerce Checkout Will Make Or Break Your Conversion Rate – Here’s Why Do your abandonment rates soar at checkout? You’re not alone. Research has shown that most ecommerce sites see between a 40-60 percent checkout abandonment rate, meaning that roughly half of all customers who make it to checkout leave before completing the first…
Mobile Commerce Tips For BigCommerce
February 21, 2018 | Brian Antczak | Uncategorized
Mobile Ecommerce: Why It Matters With everything that goes into running an ecommerce website, optimizing your site for mobile may feel like an afterthought. But it shouldn’t. Mobile ecommerce (sometimes called m-commerce) is the future of online shopping. Here are some fast facts about why it’s so important. Your customers are already on mobile. 77 percent…
Mobile Commerce Tips For BigCommerce
February 20, 2018 | Brian Antczak | Mobile Commerce
Mobile Ecommerce: Why It Matters With everything that goes into running an ecommerce website, optimizing your site for mobile may feel like an afterthought. But it shouldn’t. Mobile ecommerce (sometimes called m-commerce) is the future of online shopping. Here are some fast facts about why it’s so important. Your customers are already on mobile. 77…
All About BigCommerce AMP: Google’s Preferred Method for Mobile Optimization
December 15, 2017 | Brian Antczak | Mobile Commerce
Get A Faster Buying Experience for Your BigCommerce Customers Is your BigCommerce site mobile-friendly? Hopefully, you have a flexible, responsive design. But there’s one important part of responsive design (and its associated positive effect on SEO) that you’re probably missing out on if you’re still on Blueprint: Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). What is Google…
Supercharge Your Holiday Conversion Rate With These BigCommerce Upgrades
November 6, 2017 | Brian Antczak | BigCommerce News
Is Your BigCommerce Site Ready For Your Busiest Season? You may be able to wait for Black Friday and Cyber Monday to do your own holiday shopping. But when it comes to your ecommerce business, prepping for the holiday rush starts now. Last year, holiday spending on ecommerce sites grew by 3.6 percent, with consumer…
Google’s Search Algorithm and Mobile Usability
January 9, 2017 | Brian Antczak | Mobile Commerce
An announcement made by Google last August discussed mobile usability and its importance as a ranking signal. In that post, Google’s team explains that readability is a top concern, so that sites that don’t require a mobile user to zoom will be in better standing that those without a mobile-friendly display. Beyond just the size…
Case Study: The Design and Development of The Hair Bow Company on BigCommerce
August 2, 2016 | Brian Antczak | BigCommerce News
Responsive Design and Replatforming to BigCommerce When TheHairBowCompany.com chose IntuitSolutions for their replatforming from 3dCart, we wanted to focus on mobile-first design and optimizing their pages for SEO. The shortcomings of their previous cart platform provided plenty of fodder for guidelines about how users were navigating the site, and where their biggest frustrations were with…