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Cyber Monday Breaking Records So Far, Akamai Says
Xconomy — ... Akamai’s Net Usage Index for Retail, which aggregates data for a representative set of more than 280 retail sites using Akamai’s services, showed that as of 10:00 a.m. this morning, Eastern time, about 5.32 million people per minute were visiting retail sites supported by Akamai. That number already surpassed the 2007 Cyber Monday peak of 4.6 million visitors per minute. ...

Retailers announce plan to rename every day in December
GMSV — ... has been accepted into the small club of specially named shopping days, and today, traffic to retail sites is spiking and analysts are waiting to ...

Cyber Monday traffic better than last year
Between the Lines — ... If Web traffic translates into online sales, this year’s holiday season is gearing up to much better than last year’s - contrary to the doom-and-gloom forecasts for the holiday season. Traffic to online retail sites today - Cyber Monday - far exceeded last year’s Cyber Monday traffic. This year, the traffic peaked around 3 p.m. ET, with 6.7 million global visitors per minute - a 46 percent jump over the peak of 4.6 million on Cyber Monday last year. Today’s peak traffic also exceeded Black Friday’s peak of 5.9 million and Sunday’s 6.5 million. Still, it’s unclear how these ...

Will Cyber Monday End With a Bang or a Whimper? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... According to subsequent data, the answer appears to be “yes.” Traffic to retail sites hit a peak of 7.38 million visitors per minute late afternoon Eastern time on Sunday, according to Akamai, a few million above the Black Friday peak of of 6.69 million visitors per minute. Data today will show how the weekend and Black Friday stacked up against the Cyber Monday rush, but as of 10 a.m. ET it was hovering at just above 6 million visitors per minute. I’ll update later today, of course. ...

Cyber Monday Smashes Traffic Records [STATS]
Mashable! — ... While there’s still several more hours to go before the sun sets on Cyber Monday, Akamai is using its Net Usage Index to monitor North American visitors to 270 online retail sites, and according to ...

E-Retail Traffic Is Way Up This Holiday Season, Akamai Says—But Don’t Get Too Excited
Xconomy — ... . The company’s Retail Net Usage Index—which includes a highly representative sample of companies engaged in e-commerce—hit a peak level on “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving, that was 35 percent higher than traffic for the same shopping day in 2008. The numbers for Sunday were even more striking: traffic was up 58 percent over the Sunday after Thanksgiving in 2008. ...

Cyber Monday madness: Web retail traffic up 39 percent
The Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's blog — ... Akamai has fascinating dashboard showing how crazy the cyber Monday traffic has become: It's approaching 8 million visitors per minute -- 39 percent higher than normal -- at the company's sample of 270 global e-commerce sites: ...