Retail Archives - MiHiDigital https://mihidigital.co.uk/blog/tag/retail/ Just another WordPress site Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:14:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Christmas Statistics – Online Shopping Continues to Soar https://mihidigital.co.uk/blog/christmas-statistics-online-shopping-continues-to-soar/ Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:14:47 +0000 https://mihidigital.1c7bfa7d0ad0ed81c314972280bc4e61-10268.sites.k-hosting.co.uk/?p=3354 With us all frantically buying Christmas presents we thought it would be a good day to share some of the incredible figures that online retailers achieve over the Christmas period… An estimated 84 million visits are made to retail sites on Christmas Eve (972 per second) Once the turkey is eaten and the presents are opened an estimated 107 million of us will make a visit to an online retailer (1,238 per second) Boxing day, the traditional day for sales shopping, sees the largest day for online retail with a massive 113 million visits.  This accounts for 1,308 per second and 4.7 million every hour! Amazon has leapfrogged eBay as the most visited site during the Christmas period, raking in approximately 12% of visitor market share.  That means an estimated 36.5 million visitors will visit the Amazon website over three days, accounting for 141 visits per second! Despite Amazon’s impressive figures the Next Sale continues to be the most popular searched for sale on Google More than one in three visits made to retails sites over the Christmas period now come from a mobile. So where will you be doing your shopping?  Is it online or the high street, or a combination of both? Does it depend on price? Are your purchases and visits made from your mobile device? We’d love to hear! Have a very merry Christmas!

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  • An estimated 84 million visits are made to retail sites on Christmas Eve (972 per second)
  • Once the turkey is eaten and the presents are opened an estimated 107 million of us will make a visit to an online retailer (1,238 per second)
  • Boxing day, the traditional day for sales shopping, sees the largest day for online retail with a massive 113 million visits.  This accounts for 1,308 per second and 4.7 million every hour!
  • Amazon has leapfrogged eBay as the most visited site during the Christmas period, raking in approximately 12% of visitor market share.  That means an estimated 36.5 million visitors will visit the Amazon website over three days, accounting for 141 visits per second!
  • Despite Amazon’s impressive figures the Next Sale continues to be the most popular searched for sale on Google
  • More than one in three visits made to retails sites over the Christmas period now come from a mobile.

So where will you be doing your shopping?  Is it online or the high street, or a combination of both? Does it depend on price? Are your purchases and visits made from your mobile device?

We’d love to hear! Have a very merry Christmas!

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