Compuware announced 2013 winners of its annual Best of the Web awards, honoring top performing sites across five major industries.
Compuware APM's fifth annual Best of the Web awards recognize the top performing companies across five major industries -- banking, brokerage, insurance, retail and travel. Winners in each industry are awarded Gold, Silver, and Bronze based on their performance for the entire year across three key measurements - availability, response time and consistency of response time - for their mobile and web home pages and key user transactions.
This year's awards have been expanded to include Gold, Silver and Bronze mobile award winners for the first time in recognition that mobile is now a dominant digital touch point with mobile transactions set to quickly eclipse traditional desktop web interactions.
The 2013 Best of the Web top award winners in each industry and category include:
Banking
Banking Mobile - Gold: Wells Fargo Bank
Retail Banking Transaction - Gold: U.S. Bank
Retail Banking Last Mile - Gold: Northern Trust
Brokerage
Brokerage Transaction - Gold: Scottrade
Brokerage Last Mile - Gold: Charles Schwab
Insurance (Auto & Property)
Mobile - Gold: Travelers
Last Mile - Gold: The Hartford
Retail
Mobile - Gold : Williams-Sonoma
Transaction - Gold: Overstock.com
Last Mile - Gold: Dell
Travel Airlines
Airlines Mobile - Gold: Alaska Airlines
Airlines Transaction - Gold: Southwest Airlines
Airlines Last Mile - Gold: AirTran Airways
Travel Hotels & Resorts
Hotels Mobile - Gold: Marriott
Hotels Transaction - Gold: Best Western
Hotels Last Mile - Gold: MGM Mirage
"The stakes are higher than ever before to optimize the business value of every digital transaction, especially on mobile devices," said John Van Siclen, General Manager of Compuware's APM business unit. "The 2013 Best of the Web award winners are focused on executing a performance optimization strategy that delivers a competitive advantage in online experience and digital customer interaction."
Compuware APM Benchmarks competitively rank sites and provides the ability to analyze performance best practices used by industry leaders and competitors based on a rigorous, well-defined set of homepage measurements and online transactions. This information also provides organizations with an unmatched guide to critical performance investments necessary to become a top mobile and web property.
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