4.6 Million Visitors a Minute
November 26, 2007 by Pablo Palatnik
Cyber Monday is here and the reports are already starting to come in.
CNNMoney reports, “By 2 p.m. ET, more than 300 retailing Web sites tracked by Internet monitoring firm Akamai were drawing 4.6 million visitors per minute – a three-year record for most traffic in a single day to retail Web sites.
Akamai said that its Net Usage Index – which monitors North American visitors to sites such as jcpenney.com, Bestbuy.com and Circuitcity.com – said traffic was up more than 80 percent compared to a normal Monday.â€
It’s reported that online spend today will surpass $700 million in sales which will be a new record. Sears.com actually went down on Black Friday which surprisingly to me, a lot of people reported on that. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), 72 million consumers plan to shop online from home or at work on one of the biggest online shopping days of the year. That’s up from 61 million shoppers last year.
Are you capitalizing on Cyber Monday? How? If you aren’t, it’s definitely an indication the holiday shopping season will be a good one. If you have an e-commerce site, see what big sites such as bestbuy.com and sears.com, etc are doing and how they are getting the attention of the holiday shopper. A more detailed post to come on that…
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