Recent data has Canadians state that they're becoming more and more impatient when it comes to waiting.

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How far does this go? Well, to avoid the shopping mall during holiday season, a place wrought with waiting lines, 6% of Canadians rather get punched in the nose...

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31% think the Internet is the best line-up busting invention and for example 38% expect to do some to all of their holiday shopping online.

Easier comparison shopping, less hassle and no waiting lines are the top reasons Canadians love to shop online.

Those three main factors should be your guiding lines when looking at your online shopping site: how easy and how fast can people shop at your site, and how do you help them to get the best buy?

About the Author: Ruud Hein

I love helping to make web sites make it. From the ground up if needed. CSS challenges, server-side scripting, user and device friendly JavaScript tricks search engines have no problems with. Tracking how the sites perform and then figuring out how to make that performance and the tracking better. I'm passionate about information. No matter how often I trim my feeds in my feed readers (yes, I use more than one), I always have a couple of hundred in there covering topics ranging from design to usability, from SEO to SEM, from life hacks to productivity blogs, from.... Well, you get the idea, I guess. Knowledge and information management is close to my heart. Has to be with the amount of information I track. My "trusted system" is usually in flux but always at hand and fully searchable. My paid passion job at Search Engine People sees me applying my passions and knowledge to a wide array of problems, ones I usually experience as challenges. It's good to have you here: pleased to meet you! Read more...