Traffic Acquisition
SOPA and PIPA: 10 Key Stats to Consider
Posted on Jan 18 2012 by Margot Bonner
According to Politico, approximately 7,000 sites are taking part in today’s protest against the House of Representatives’ Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate’s Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Sites including Wikipedia and Craigslist have “gone black” in protest and to raise awareness of these acts. Rather than a traditional “Google Doodle” for the [...]
Post Holiday Traffic Boom
Posted on Dec 29 2011 by Heather Dougherty
After a strong start over the Thanksgiving weekend, the traffic to the top 500 retail websites continue to increase every week throughout the 2011 holiday season as compared to last year. The highest increases year-over-year for daily traffic took place on the day after Christmas where traffic was up 31% over last year and Cyber [...]
Napster’s Final Days Drive Visits to the Website
Posted on Dec 16 2011 by Hitwise Research
Napster, the free peer-to-peer file sharing service which launched in 1999 and largely created the peer-to-peer music file sharing craze of the last decade, was recently acquired by online music subscription service Rhapsody. The acquisition was announced in early October and became official on November 30th, 2011. The result of the acquisition is the end [...]
Retail traffic on Black Friday up 2%
Posted on Nov 26 2011 by Hitwise Research
Total US visits to the top 500 Retail websites increased 2% on Black Friday as compared to 2010 and received more than 173 million US visits. Traffic has increased each day leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday and the total visits dipped slightly (-1%) on Black Friday compared Thanksgiving Day 2011. Early Black Friday sales [...]
Retail traffic on Thanksgiving Day up 9%
Posted on Nov 26 2011 by Hitwise Research
Total US visits to the top 500 Retail websites increased 9% on Thanksgiving as compared to 2010 and received more than 176 million US visits. Traffic increased each day leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday and the total visits jumped 57% on Thanksgiving Day from the previous day, Nov. 23, 2011. Among the categories driving [...]
Pre-Black Friday retail traffic up 6%
Posted on Nov 23 2011 by Hitwise Research
Total US online visits to the top 500 retail sites are up 6% last week compared to same time last year. The custom category of 500 retail sites received 607 million total US visits last week and recorded its’ 3rd straight week of growth heading into the Peak Week of online retail traffic. This growth [...]
Black Friday Anticipation Builds
Posted on Nov 18 2011 by Heather Dougherty
Black Friday is almost upon us and the outlook is looking good for a positive start to the holiday season. The NRF predicts that 152 million people will shop over Black Friday weekend, up 10% from last year – a conservative estimate based upon the actual 212 million shoppers that actually appeared in retail stores. [...]
Google+ records 3rd biggest week since launch
Posted on Nov 16 2011 by Hitwise Research
Last week Google+ recorded its 3rd largest week in terms of total US visits for the week ending Nov. 12, 2011 receiving more than 6.8 million total US visits. The growth represents a 5% increase versus the previous week and a 25% increase compared to a month ago. The recent growth could possibly be attributed [...]
Affluent shoppers boost online retail traffic
Posted on Oct 28 2011 by Heather Dougherty
Holiday retail sales for 2011 are expected to increase 2.8% to $465.6 billion, according to the National Retail Federation, lower growth than the 5.2% increase in sales from the 2010 holiday season. Last year, the increase in visits to online retailers was higher than the overall lift in sales as consumers researched products and store [...]
iPhone 5 Rumors Shaped Search Activity
Posted on Oct 07 2011 by Lauren Rice
On October 4th 2011 Apple announced the addition of the iPhone 4S to its product line which will be available to customers on October 12th. This was likely to the dismay of web users who have been anxiously awaiting Apple to announce that it would be releasing the iPhone 5 instead of an upgrade to [...]