Did your site get some of the Cyber Monday rush?
Cyber Monday resulted in 4.6 million online visitors a minute with 72 million shoppers going online to shop on the day, according to Internet monitoring firm Akamai, which monitors North American visitors. The most searched item on the internet was the Transformers Bumblebee toy, which replaced Nintendo’s Wii as the top searched item on the internet on Cyber Monday. Traffic was up by around 80% to sites such as jcpenney.com, Bestbuy.com, Circuitcity.com and so on.
ComScore Networks has predicted that Cyber Monday sales will cross $700 million this year and will set the tone for future holiday shopping. The NRF estimates that 72 million consumers will be shopping from home of office on Cyber Monday, up from 61 million online visitors last year. With 72% of online retailers offering specials on Cyber Monday along with free shopping incentives, the rise in sales and visitors is expected.