If you visit the updates page of the Mac App Store often, and you get fed up with wating for the main page of the App Store to open, you may like to know there's now a URL you can visit which will take you straight to the updates page:

macappstore://showUpdatesPage – click to open the MAS and jump straight to the updates page.

I've also added the URL into Alfred so that I can use Alfred to open the page, too. Click the following link to add the same thing to your Alfred:

Add "Open Mac App Store updates page" to Alfred App

There's no need to change anything; simply clicking the above link will add the shortcut "masu" to Alfred, which will open the updates page when activated.

Oh, and one last thing; you don't need the Mac App Store open to use the URL. If you activate the URL with the App Store closed, it'll automatically open.