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Is Monday The Best Day To End Your Auctions?

Posted By: Torrey
Date: Monday, 17 June 2002, at 2:21 p.m.

Monday the Most Popular Day Worldwide to Surf the Web, According to WebSideStory's Statmarket
Study Shows Mondays Account for the Most Internet Traffic of the Week; Weekends Lower in Comparison

SAN DIEGO, CA -- May 29, 2002 - WebSideStory, Inc. ( www.websidestory.com), the world’s leading provider of outsourced e-business intelligence services, today reported that based on its findings over the past year, Monday is the most popular day of the week to surf the Internet, while Saturday and Sunday are the least popular. According to WebSideStory’s StatMarket® ( www.statmarket.com), Internet use worldwide on any weekday is higher than on the weekends, indicating that people are not spending much of their weekend leisure time online. StatMarket is a Web site design and software optimization service and a leading source for data on global Internet user trends. The service gathers information from more than 50 million Internet users a day to more than 125,000 sites worldwide using WebSideStory’s HitBox Enterprise ( www.hitboxenterprise.com) and other HitBox (www.hitbox.com) outsourced Web visitor analysis services.

On average, Monday accounts for about 15% of Internet traffic for the week worldwide. In contrast, Saturday and Sunday account for the least amount of Internet traffic, with 13.5%, and 13.7% respectively. Traffic data for this study was gathered between May 20, 2001 and May 18, 2002.

“What we’re seeing is that people tend to surf the Internet during the workweek more than at home on the weekends,” said Geoff Johnston, vice president of product marketing for StatMarket. “This may imply that much of their personal Web use takes place at work. Or perhaps people have better things to do on the weekend than surf the Internet.”

Breakdown of surfer traffic by day of the week (May 20, 2001 - May 18, 2002):

Day % of Weekly Traffic
Sunday 13.68%
Monday 15.04%
Tuesday 14.27%
Wednesday 14.37%
Thursday 14.50%
Friday 14.67%
Saturday 13.47%

Messages In This Thread

Is Monday The Best Day To End Your Auctions?
Torrey -- Monday, 17 June 2002, at 2:21 p.m.

Awesome Post!
Jim Wilson -- Tuesday, 18 June 2002, at 7:43 p.m.

Re: Awesome Post!
Torrey -- Friday, 21 June 2002, at 12:15 p.m.

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