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Improve your customer experience with UKFast's ecommerce hosting
Year on year ecommerce is commanding a bigger slice of the overall commerce pie. In fact total online spend in the UK is fast approaching £200 billion with ecommerce accounting for a quarter of this figure. Data from IMRG estimate that £43.8 billion was spent on online retail alone in the UK in 2008, an increase of nearly 45 per cent in just two years.
So ecommerce is already big business. Sellers who are not online need to get into gear, while established web retailers need to be on the top of their game to beat the competition.
To gain an competitive advantage online you need to host your ecommerce site with the right host, in the UK for your UK audience and one guarantees the best page load speeds. Page loads speeds have two main benefits to your website:
- Usability -faster page load speeds directly correspond to an increase in the number of sales.
- Search Engine Rankings - search engines reward faster loading websites with higher rankings.
Why choose UKFast for your ecommerce platform?
In order to target the UK market you must be hosted on a UK based network, this increases page load times, but it also means that when you are ranked by search engines your servers IP address' are recognised as being local to the searches your potential visitors are making.
By joining the UKFast network, you give your business the best possible chance for online success. As an award winning hosting provider with the fastest network and 100% network guarantee. Users don't like to wait, so dont' make them, deliver your products faster.
Accelerate your website, call UKFast today 0800 458 4545 or request an ecommerce hosting quote