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Amazon, Wal-Mart Top Retail Sites; Summer Traffic Up from Last Year
Traffic to the top retail websites during the summer months (June - August) was 10% higher than in the previous year, with that growth continuing into and increasing in September, according to the Hitwise Retail Index of the leading 100 US retail websites*.
August traffic increased most, growing 11% year over year, with the YOY increases steadily growing each summer month (see table - US market share of visits to retail sites), Hitwise found.
The growth pattern has continued into the fall, with US visits in September up 15% compared with Sept. 2006.
“As we head into the 2007 online holiday season, the healthy increase in visits to the retail category this year versus last is an indicator that we will be seeing a strong showing for online retail in the fourth quarter,” said Bill Tancer, general manager of global research at Hitwise.
Top Retail Websites
Amazon.com was the most visited website among the top 100 retail websites during the summer months. Amazon’s average market share of US visits from June to August was 11.52%.
Wal-Mart followed with 5.37%. Target received 4.81% of visits; Half.com (from eBay) received 4.45%; and Dell.com rounded out the top 5 websites with 3.49%.
Earlier this week, Hitwise announced the launch of its new Retail Data Center, a publicly available website that provides weekly online shopping trend data, based on how U.S. Internet users interact with more than 20,000 online shopping sites, across 21 shopping categories.
The Hitwise Retail Data Center features weekly data, including the following:
- Top 20 Most Visited Websites from custom category of top 100 retail websites (U.S. only)
- Top 10 Shopping Search Terms among rotating categories
- Top 10 Visited Shopping Websites among rotating categories
- Top Four Fast-Moving shopping websites
* The category of websites does not include websites from the following categories: auctions, classifieds, subscription services, DVD and video game rental, reward point collecting and coupons.
