Cyber Monday Shoppers: 4M per Minute

CNN says that online traffic was up 43% on Cyber Monday (compared to last year). By mid-day in the U.S. there was more than 4.3 million visitors per minute shopping online.

By 2:20 p.m. ET, more than 270 retailing Web sites tracked by Internet monitoring firm Akamai were drawing more than 4.3 million visitors per minute in North America. Akamai said that its Net Usage Index -- which monitors North American visitors to sites such as American Eagle Outfitters, Overstock.com, QVC.com and eBags.com -- said traffic was up nearly 39% compared to the same time last year.

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