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Brisbane, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - December 14, 2005 - Online retailing and ecommerce giant, Shopping.com,has disclosed its latest holiday demand data and insights.

The company’s website is one of the mostvisited online retail sites with more than 20 million unique visitors a monthand 135 million shoppers in November and December 2004 - according to comScore.

By offering more than35 million products in 325 categories from thousands of retailers,Shopping.com has a unique lens on how, on when and for what Americans areshopping online.

Lorrie Norrington, president and CEO of Shopping.com explained, ”American shoppers’ increasing comfort online is reflected this year in greater traffic overall and the types of goods being researched and bought. Double-digit growth in searches and purchases is no longer just the domain of consumer electronics and traditional early-adopter products; today some of the fastest and most significant growth is in household appliances, toys and clothing.”

Volume and Velocity on Shopping.com:

— Black Friday (11/25) and Cyber Monday (11/28) showed traffic increases of approximately 30 percent and that record usage continues

— Manic Mondays continue to dominate weekday traffic. Prior to Thanksgiving, Mondays were the biggest online shopping day of the week; that pattern has continued both on Cyber Monday and the two Monday’s following it

— Starting with Black Friday this year, more shoppers have visited Shopping.com each day than the busiest day of 2004

— A purchase is made through Shopping.com every 3 seconds

— A digital camera is purchased every 2.2 seconds through Shopping.com this holiday season, up nearly 30 percent from last year’s rate of one every 2.8 seconds

— Every minute, two Xbox games are sold through Shopping.com

— A pair of shoes is sold every 1.3 seconds through Shopping.com

The top five categories in the U.S. this year on Shopping.com are: home and garden; electronics; clothing and accessories; computers; kids and family.

According to Shannon Clouston, Chief Shopper for Shopping.com, ”For more mainstream consumers the breadth and depth of choice online has been a blessing and a curse with no clear way to sort through all the products. At Shopping.com, we create order out of chaos by providing the most intuitive structure on traditionally hard to organize items, such as clothing and shoes, via the world’s largest product catalog.”

Shopping.com is an eBay company, and is one of the fastest growing shopping destinations on the Internet.

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

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