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I call bullshit on the headline. "PayPal handles 60% of web transactions" is not seen anywhere in the original source (which is about payment performance), and
by CookWithMe 14y ago
I call bullshit on the headline. "PayPal handles 60% of web transactions" is not seen anywhere in the original source (which is about payment performance), and it is probably wrong.
NewRelic did collect data of their customers (and that is what they have said), but their customers do not include Amazon. You can not just take their data and claim they are 100% of web transactions (and NewRelic has not done that). I bet Amazon does make up a big percentage of all web transactions (though smaller than PayPal).
- baconist 14y agoFurther, Cybersource isn't mentioned anywhere. I have a very hard time believing that New Relic doesn't have any large Cybersource customers.
- drone 14y agoAgreed, the article is egregiously misleading, the data only samples that from one provider, with no explanation of how many companies and of what size and type of merchants that provider handles. EDIT: Somehow my comment got linked to this one, instead of the parent. For the above comment, I'd add: Cybersource owns Authorize.net, and tends to use them as the gateway (my experience as an ex cybersource customer was that they had us use Authorize.net as the gateway, and CS was the merchant bank).
- nhebb 14y ago> "PayPal handles 60% of web transactions" is not seen anywhere in the original source I agree this doesn't represent the web as a whole, but the top portion of the graphic does show that 60% of the "Total Calls by Gateway" were to PayPal.
- CookWithMe 14y agoAnd the bottom says "Data was pulled [...] from all NewRelic customers with apps making external calls to payment gateways". So yeah, it is only at the bottom and I may give someone the benefit of doubt of not spotting that - but not if they want to be a professional journalist ;)