Posts Tagged ‘ Fashion ’

Luxury and bespoke searches: travel, fashion and furniture

Tweet Yesterday I presented at the Luxury Interactive 2010 conference in London, and I thought I’d share a couple of the finding from the research that I carried out for the event. The first thing I did was to look at the most luxurious searches in the UK using our search term suggestions tool. Over [...][ READ MORE ]

Shop opening times searches up 11% this Christmas

Tweet Just after Easter we wrote a blog about the popularity of searches for shop opening times / hours. That analysis showed that searches for retailer opening times spiked during the May and August bank holidays, over Easter, and at Christmas time as people look for pre-Christmas and Boxing Day opening hours. The post-Christmas spike [...][ READ MORE ]

Post-Christmas retail round up: online and offline traffic spikes on Boxing Day

Tweet As we’ve pointed out for the last couple of years, the post-Christmas period has become increasingly important for online retailers – and this year is proving no exception. Boxing Day (December 26th) was again the busiest day for online retailers during 2009, while, as the chart below illustrates, December 27th was the second busiest [...][ READ MORE ]

UK Halloween and fancy dress costume searches increasing

Tweet Judging by the amount of merchandise for sale in the shops, it feels like Halloween becomes more popular every year in the UK. And Hitwise search data seems to bear this out: the chart below illustrates the breadth of searches for the term ‘halloween’ (which measures the number of different ways that people search [...][ READ MORE ]

Pre-Christmas sales searches: let the game of Retail Chicken commence!

Tweet We’ve written a lot about the growth of voucher searches and the emergence of the ‘maximising consumer’ recently. Indeed, UK Internet searches for discount vouchers continue to increase: as of last week, searches for our portfolio of voucher-related searches were up 40% year-on-year. However, it is important not to underestimate the impact of a [...][ READ MORE ]

Top 100 student websites in the UK

Tweet Yesterday I received a call from Sridhar Venkatapuram of the London Business School asking me about the online behaviour of students in the UK. I mentioned on Twitter that I was pulling a list of the 100 most popular websites amongst UK students, and received a number of requests to publish the list. Well, [...][ READ MORE ]

Online retailers receiving less traffic from paid search, but more from social networks

Tweet The amount of traffic that online retailers receive from paid search – i.e. from sponsored or paid for links on search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Live and Ask – has fallen over the last 12 months. During March 2009, 8.9% of all UK Internet visits to online retailers came from a paid search [...][ READ MORE ]

Sales searches drive department store traffic

Tweet The spring sales have started on the high street, and department stores are the main beneficiaries online. While UK Internet visits to our Shopping and Classifieds parent category increased by just 0.9% last week, a custom category of ‘traditional’ high street department store websites (e.g. John Lewis, Debenhams, Littlewoods, etc.) experienced a 21.0% increase. [...][ READ MORE ]

BBC F1 and the new England Kit

Tweet The Formula 1 season kicked off this weekend, with Jenson Button pulling off a surprise victory for the new Brawn team. This year the UK television coverage has returned to the BBC after more than a decade with ITV. In previous years ‘itv f1′ has been the top search term sending traffic to our [...][ READ MORE ]

Top 10 websites of 2008

Tweet We published the results of the Hitwise UK Online Performance Awards today. These list the 10 most visited websites in the UK during 2008 for over 60 industry categories. You can see the full list on the awards microsite, but here I thought I’d highlight the top sites in three categories that have experienced [...][ READ MORE ]