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From Apryl Duncan, for About.com

2008 Cyber Monday Traffic Up

Thursday December 4, 2008
Cyber Monday brought in about 35.9 million shoppers to selected sites Nielsen Online monitored for the 2008 survey. Nielsen says these numbers show a 10-percent increase from last year's equivalent of Black Friday for online stores.

eBay was the big winner, pulling in 10.6 million visitors. Amazon brought in 9 million visitors while Wal-Mart had 5.2 million unique visitors.

Sears saw the most year-to-year growth with a 58-percent increase in traffic. Beauty saw the most growth over last year with a 151-percent increase in traffic. Toys/video games saw a 112-percent increase and apparel grew 58 percent.
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