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Time-to-online: the growth metric missing from your dashboard

calendar_today September 7, 2026 person Gretchen Salois domain rithum

Reading Time: 4 minutes At a glance Retail measures almost everything about a product once it is live: sessions, conversion, sell-through, margin. But ask how long that product took to get from “commercially agreed” to “buyable on site” and the room goes quiet. Time-to-online is the metric that determines how fast assortment strategy becomes revenue.

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