Research & Studies

Let’s say it has been ten years since you last implemented your self-service customer portal and it’s starting to show its age. A lot has changed in the portal space since that time and you want to consider a new platform to support your ongoing digital transformation efforts. As you start to research what’s available […]

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a fundamental networking protocol. It is part of the Internet protocol suite and operates in the transport layer. All networking transmissions are broken up into packets. TCP guarantees that all packets arrive, in order, and without errors. This requires a lot of back-and-forth communication (Three-way handshake). Problem occurs when packet is not […]

Here are the results from the fifth of our “Links as a Ranking Factor” studies. We conducted the first of these studies in May 2016 and have been tracking the same query set over time to measure any material shifts in the role of links. In this year’s study, we also expanded our examination of […]

In the first installment of this series, we explored the definitions of “digital” preferred by Perficient clients and other digital professionals. This episode continues our exploration into the nature of digital. We’ll look at the business benefits expected of digital, innovations associated with it, and attitudinal trends shaping investments in digital. Digital by Association In […]

The Information You Need to Thrive in Today’s Google Landscape This study presents never-before-seen information on how Google’s search features impact click-through rate (CTR) behavior in the search results. To our knowledge, this will be the first such study that marries actual rankings data with real clickstream data. Key findings in this report include (but […]

When you hear “digital,” what comes to mind? A smartphone? Your Twitter feed? Maybe this morning’s Peloton session you absolutely crushed? Or perhaps it’s live-editing a Google document with teammates in multiple time zones. Or using AI to coax meaning out of data that not long ago you thought to be worthless. Digital can be […]

At the start of 2020, Perficient kicked off its Growth for Everyone campaign with a self-discovery initiative. The first post of the series, A Study in Personality Tests: What Can They Do for You?, explored the psychological and professional benefits of personality tests, while highlighting some of the most influential assessments. To further the discussion, […]

Adobe is a top digital experience platform with a suite of solutions to enhance brands’ customer experience. To utilize its full breadth and complexity of components, Adobe partners offer unique capabilities and insight, along with certified Adobe experts. This is where Perficient excels as a digital consultancy with more than eight years of Adobe partnership […]

This study presents information on how Google’s move toward implementing search features is impacting click-through behavior in the search results. To our knowledge, this will be the first such study that marries actual rankings data with real clickstream data. Our partner in this project was AuthorityLabs Data Services. They identified 2M queries to track the […]

Perficient is a global consulting company that provides consulting services for digital transformation. Within the cloud computing space, our core competencies are in strategic planning, workload modernization and migration, pipeline automation, and big data. What Does the Cloud Team at Perficient Do? “Our team helps clients leverage cloud technologies from strategic planning through implementation for […]

For the fifth straight year, we searched the 1.4 million search queries to measure the state of featured snippets. The goal was to look at a large number of queries that have potential to generate a featured snippet. We then looked at how many of these produced results, as well as how these results have […]