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San Diego, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - May 15, 2006 - Repeat visitors are eight times more likely to click the order button than new visitors, according to new data from on-demand digital marketing and real-time enterprise analytics solutions firm, WebSideStory, Inc.

During the first three months of 2006, repeat visitors to business-to-consumer e-commerce sites had a conversion rate of 12.61 percent, compared to just 1.55 percent for new visitors, according to the WebSideStory Index, a statistical barometer that features techno-graphic trends culled from the millions of daily Internet users that visit web sites using the company’s award-winning web analytics solution, HBX Analytics.

Ali Behnam, Senior Digital Marketing Consultant for WebSideStory explained, ”While it has long been known that repeat visitors make better customers than new visitors, this data shows exactly how much better. For marketers of e-commerce sites, this data further drives home the importance of building customer loyalty online.”

Customer loyalty is particularly important in the computers and electronics category, where repeat visitors were nearly 16 times more likely to make a purchase than new visitors with conversion rates of 23.12 percent and 1.49 percent respectively. By comparison, visitor loyalty was less important for shoppers at apparel sites, where the conversion rate for repeat visitors (7.56 percent) outranked the conversion rate for new visitors (1.37 percent) by less than 6 times.

Mr. Behnam added, ”This makes perfect sense as consumers are more apt to buy clothing on the spur of the moment than a big-ticket item like a computer or television, which requires much more research.”

Founded in 1996, WebSideStory, Inc. is a provider of on-demand digital marketing and real-time enterprise analytics solutions that improve online marketing, sales and business operations. Its Active Marketing Suite consists of web analytics, site search, web content management, and keyword bid management.

WebSideStory also provides enterprise analytics solutions through its wholly owned subsidiary, Visual Sciences, LLC, a provider of streaming data analysis and visualization software. WebSideStory is headquartered in San Diego, California, and has European headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

To learn more, please visit: www.websidestory.com.

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