Online retailers hit 4.6M visitors a minute, today Wow!
![]() Online retailers were set to break one-day records for traffic and sales, as
consumers hunted down Cyber Monday
bargains.
By 2 p.m. ET, more than 300 retailing Web sites tracked by Internet monitoring firm Akamai were drawing 4.6 million visitors per minute - a three-year record for most traffic in a single day to retail Web sites… ComScore Networks estimates that Cyber Monday sales will surpass $700 million, which would make it the heaviest online spending day on record… It was a toy that knocked Nintendo’s Wii from the No. 1 spot this past weekend as the most-searched item on Yahoo! Wii surrendered its top spot to the Transformers Bumblebee toy… Wii was the second most-searched item, followed by Apple’s iPhone, a Sharp Aquos 46-inch Plasma TV and the Nintendo Onyx DS Lite, which rounded out the top 5 hottest searches on Yahoo! Shopping heading into Cyber Monday. May as well spend it all before the recession. Posted: Mon - November 26, 2007 at 04:06 PM |