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Holiday 2001 Online Shopping Results: Traffic Up 50 Percent Compared With Last Year, Reports Jupiter Media Metrix
Jupiter Media Metrix, the global leader in Internet and new technology analysis and measurement, released the final installment of its weekly Holiday 2001 E-Commerce Series.
On average, 51.3 million unique visitors went to shopping sites each week during the 2001 holiday-shopping season (week ending November 25 through week ending December 23), up 50 percent compared with the 2000 holiday-shopping season and up 95 percent versus 1999.
"With the holiday-buying season behind us, we're left with one inescapable truth: the Internet has become an integral part of holiday shopping," said Charles Buchwalter, vice president, media research, Jupiter Media Metrix.
On average, 51.3 million unique visitors went to shopping sites each week during the 2001 holiday-shopping season (week ending November 25 through week ending December 23), up 50 percent compared with the 2000 holiday-shopping season and up 95 percent versus 1999.
"With the holiday-buying season behind us, we're left with one inescapable truth: the Internet has become an integral part of holiday shopping," said Charles Buchwalter, vice president, media research, Jupiter Media Metrix.
"Unlike 2000, when online shopping started strong but then fell off, online shopping this year started strong and ended even stronger."
"We've been waiting for the inevitable dominance of traditional retailers over their pure-play counterparts, and it appears that 2001 may have been the year when it finally happened," said Ken Cassar, Jupiter Research senior analyst. "With a few exceptions such as Amazon.com, the dominant retailers that sell merchandise directly from their sites tend to be affiliated with brick-and-mortar stores and catalogs. In fact, traffic to the seven traditional retailers among the top 15 shopping sites for the entire 2001 shopping season increased 73 percent versus last year."
The top three traditional retailers according to their average daily number of unique visitors each week over the 2001 holiday-shopping season were: Columbia House Sites with 598,000 average daily unique visitors; Toysrus with 515,000; and Barnesandnoble.com with 447,000.
Traffic to all shopping sites for the week following the holiday-shopping season (week ending December 30, 2001) was down nine percent compared with the season average, but the Jupiter Media Metrix Online Shopping Index - which aggregates Web visitors from both home and work to nearly 500 retail sites and 19 subcategories - was still up 61 percent compared with the same week last year.
"We've been waiting for the inevitable dominance of traditional retailers over their pure-play counterparts, and it appears that 2001 may have been the year when it finally happened," said Ken Cassar, Jupiter Research senior analyst. "With a few exceptions such as Amazon.com, the dominant retailers that sell merchandise directly from their sites tend to be affiliated with brick-and-mortar stores and catalogs. In fact, traffic to the seven traditional retailers among the top 15 shopping sites for the entire 2001 shopping season increased 73 percent versus last year."
The top three traditional retailers according to their average daily number of unique visitors each week over the 2001 holiday-shopping season were: Columbia House Sites with 598,000 average daily unique visitors; Toysrus with 515,000; and Barnesandnoble.com with 447,000.
Traffic to all shopping sites for the week following the holiday-shopping season (week ending December 30, 2001) was down nine percent compared with the season average, but the Jupiter Media Metrix Online Shopping Index - which aggregates Web visitors from both home and work to nearly 500 retail sites and 19 subcategories - was still up 61 percent compared with the same week last year.
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