E-commerce Task

Visit three different websites: an e-commerce site of your choice, a non-profit site, and then a government website. For each site, assume you want to accomplish an e-commerce task: make a purchase, a donation, or perform a government-related task (apply for a job, pay taxes, pay a ticket, etc.). Compare your overall experiences on each site, and note how easy it is to accomplish the tasks:

1.  How do these sites track purchases or donations as users navigate the site?
2. Do all the sites use secure transmissions for e-commerce (https://)?
3. What improvements would you recommend for these sites?

Be sure to list the sites you visited and the type of task you tried to accomplish during your visit.