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Online retail visits increase 8% year over year week of Dec 9 – 15
Posted on Dec 18 2012 by Matt Tatham
With the busy holiday marketing season in full swing, Experian Marketing Services has released its online retail round-up for the week ending December 15. The online traffic to the top 500 retail sites increased 8% for the period of December 9 – 15, compared to the same week in 2011. Additionally, Amazon remained the top [...]
Online retail visits increase 5% year over year week of Dec 2 – 8
Posted on Dec 14 2012 by Matt Tatham
With the busy holiday marketing season in full swing, Experian Marketing Services has released its online retail round-up for the week ending December 8. The online traffic to the top 500 retail sites increased 5% for the period of December 2 – 8, compared to the same week in 2011. Additionally, Amazon remained the top [...]
Cyber Monday online retail traffic increased 11% in 2012
Posted on Nov 27 2012 by Matt Tatham
Continuing the strong holiday push from this past holiday weekend online traffic on Cyber Monday increased 11% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 206.8 million total US visits. So far this past Holiday week of online traffic from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday to retail sites is up [...]
Black Friday retail traffic increased 7% in 2012
Posted on Nov 25 2012 by Matt Tatham
Black Friday online traffic increased 7% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 193.8 million total US visits. So far this Holiday week of online traffic to the top retail sites is up 10% on average. Online retail traffic was up 1% on Black Friday compared to Thanksgiving Day [...]
Thanksgiving Day retail traffic increased 6% in 2012
Posted on Nov 24 2012 by Matt Tatham
Thanksgiving Day online traffic increased 6% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 192.5 million total US visits. So far this Holiday week of online traffic to the top retail sites is up 11% on average. Retail traffic also increased 43% on Thanksgiving Day 2012 versus the day before. [...]
Online retail visits increase 10% heading into the Holiday weekend
Posted on Nov 21 2012 by Matt Tatham
As we head into the busiest Holiday shopping weekend the total US visits to the top 500 retail sites increased 10% this past week compared to the same time in 2011. The top 500 retail sites received more than 666.8 million visits for the week ending Nov. 17, 2012. Retail sites have been steadily growing [...]
Second presidential debate spawns new Internet meme
Posted on Oct 19 2012 by Matt Tatham
The second presidential debate took place on Tuesday, Oct. 16th and both the Obama and Romney websites saw increases in total US visits the day after the second debate as Obama’s site saw a 41% increase and Romney’s site saw a 33% increase. Heading up to the debate the battle for swing state votes is [...]
Google share of searches at 65% in September 2012
Posted on Oct 17 2012 by Matt Tatham
One-word searches increased 14% versus 2011 and eight word searches increase 6% versus August 2011 Google accounted for 65.26% of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending September 29, 2012 according to Experian Marketing Services. The combined Bing-powered search comprised 26.58% of searches for the month, with Yahoo! Search and Bing receiving 13.77% [...]
Google share of searches at 65% in August 2012
Posted on Sep 28 2012 by Matt Tatham
Experian Hitwise data shows Bing-powered share of searches up 1% in August 2012; 1-word searches increased 15% versus 2011 Google accounted for 65.28% of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending September 1, 2012. The combined Bing-powered search comprised 26.96% of searches for the month, with Yahoo! Search and Bing receiving 13.97% and 12.99%, [...]
iPhone 5 ranked as 8th most popular search in US
Posted on Sep 27 2012 by Matt Tatham
Since the iPhone 5 went on sale last Friday, a look back at the search activity shows that the iPhone 5 announcement on September 12th caused US searches on the term “iPhone 5” to rank as the 8th most popular search query on the Internet that day. Last week, searches for iPhone 5 increased 362% [...]