"Cyber Monday" Retail Traffic Surpasses Last Year's Peak, and Continues to Climb.* Akamai Net Usage Index for Retail tracks record, real-time Web shopping traffic * By 11:00 a.m. ET today, online visits to retail sites had already surpassed 2005's Cyber Monday The name given by online retailers and e-commerce experts to the Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday. With its Black Friday counterpart in actual store-based traffic, analysts have pointed to significant spikes in online shopping on Cyber Monday. peak of 3.1 million visitors per minute to retail sites * At 2:00 p.m. ET, Akamai was tracking over 3,530,000 global visitors per minute to retail sites - a record for 2006 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, today released data from its Akamai Net Usage Index for Retail chronicling real-time traffic to online shopping sites. Measuring the impact of "Cyber Monday," Akamai's unique index tracks visitors per minute to an aggregated group of more than 270 global e-commerce sites. As of 2 p.m. ET today, North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. traffic had reached 2,145,558 visitors per minute, a 19 percent increase over 2005's Cyber Monday peak for North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . At the same time, global traffic reached 3,530,914 visitors per minute, a 14 percent increase over the 2005 peak. With visitors per minute continuing to grow, Akamai is expecting even higher percentage increases over 2005 by day's end. Visit http://www.akamai.com/netusageindex for a live view throughout the day of the Akamai Net Usage Index for Retail. Akamai has also released the following additional traffic statistics for the recent Thanksgiving Thanksgiving annual U.S. holiday celebrating harvest and yearly blessings; originated with Pilgrims (1621). [Am. Culture: EB, IX: 922] See : America Thanksgiving national holiday with luxurious dinner as chief ritual. [Am. Pop. holiday period: * Traffic peaked on the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday (11/23) at 1,845,727 visitors per minute around 10:30 p.m. ET. This represented the third largest North American spike to date this year. * Global traffic on "Black Friday Black Friday, Sept. 24, 1869, in U.S. history, day of financial panic. In 1869 a small group of American financial speculators, including Jay Gould and James Fisk, sought the support of federal officials of the Grant administration in a drive to corner the gold " (11/24) peaked at 3,080,349 visitors per minute; and at 1,852,176 visitors per minute in North America. For year-over-year comparisons during the month leading up to this year's "Cyber Monday," Akamai has compiled the following additional data: Weekly North American Online Retail Visitor Growth (Oct. - Nov. '06) [TABLE OMITTED] Weekly Global Online Retail Visitor Growth (Oct. - Nov. '06) [TABLE OMITTED] About Akamai Akamai([R]) is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online. Thousands of organizations have formed trusted relationships with Akamai, improving their revenue and reducing costs by maximizing the performance of their online businesses. Leveraging the Akamai EdgePlatform, these organizations gain business advantage today, and have the foundation for the emerging Web solutions of tomorrow. Akamai is "The Trusted Choice for Online Business." For more information, visit www.akamai.com. |
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