Empirical Research & Open Datasets
We collect and publish reproducible open-access datasets on e-commerce speed, Core Web Vitals, and third-party script friction to advance the web performance ecosystem.
Commerce Performance Index (September 2026 Master Benchmark)
Comparing Core Web Vitals pass rates, median LCP/INP/CLS, and third-party script bloat across Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, and Shopware.
Shopify Core Web Vitals Cohort Study: Why 61% of Stores Fail
Deep statistical dive into the top 25,400 Shopify stores. How theme choice, app count, and review carousels correlate with mobile conversion drops.
WooCommerce Self-Hosted Performance & TTFB Distribution
Analyzing the hosting dispersion among 18,200 WooCommerce installations. The statistical impact of Redis object caching on MySQL query execution.
Top 50 E-Commerce Third-Party Scripts: The CPU Weight Index
Empirical measurement of the main-thread blocking time, network transfer weight, and INP cost of 50 common advertising and analytics pixels.
Open Access & Citation Guidelines
All datasets published by the Commerce Performance Observatory are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You are free to cite, remix, and publish excerpts in engineering publications, academic research, and media reports with attribution to PulseAudit.