In 2024, the average daily number of visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris declined by 2.6 percent over the previous year. On average, the Louvre, the most visited museum worldwide, welcomed almost 28,000 visitors per opening day in 2024. This figure remained below the average daily attendance reported in 2019, the year before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since June 2022, the popular institution has decided to cap the number of daily admissions at 30,000.
In March 2024, Amazon.com had approximately 2.2 billion combined web visits, up from 2.1 billion visits in February. In the fourth quarter of 2024, Amazon’s net income amounted to approximately 20 billion U.S. dollars. Online retail in the United States Online retail in the United States is constantly growing. In the third quarter of 2023, e-commerce sales accounted for 15.6 percent of retail sales in the United States. During that quarter, U.S. retail e-commerce sales amounted to over 284 billion U.S. dollars. Amazon is the leading online store in the country, in terms of e-commerce net sales. Amazon.com generated around 130 billion U.S. dollars in online sales in 2022. Walmart ranked as the second-biggest online store, with revenues of 52 billion U.S. dollars. The king of Black Friday In 2023, Amazon ranked as U.S. shoppers' favorite place to go shopping during Black Friday, even surpassing in-store purchasing. Nearly six out of ten consumers chose Amazon as the number one place to go find the best Black Friday deals. Similar findings can be observed in the United Kingdom (UK), where Amazon is also ranked as the preferred Black Friday destination.
The total visits to Walmart.com peaked in November 2023 at 517 million, after reaching a low of approximately 369 million in September 2023. The months leading up to the winter holidays are typically the months with the highest web traffic in e-commerce in the United States.
In March 2024, search platform Google.com generated approximately 85.5 billion visits, down from 87 billion platform visits in October 2023. Google is a global search platform and one of the biggest online companies worldwide.
In 2021, July was the busiest month for National Park Service sites in the United States. That month, national sites attracted about 1.3 million visitors per day, denoting a 25 percent increase in the average daily number of people going to sites over the same month in the previous year.
In 2017 and 2018, just over 17 euros on average per day per visitor was spent on food and drinks by day visitors in Utrecht (Netherlands), whereas the expenditures on shopping amounted to 14.10 euros per person per day. The least was spent on local public transport, which had an average of 1.30 euros per person by day visitors.
Reddit is a web traffic powerhouse: in March 2024 approximately 2.2 billion visits were measured to the online forum, making it one of the most-visited websites online. The front page of the internet Formerly known as “the front page of the internet”, Reddit is an online forum platform with over 130,000 sub-forums and communities. The platform allows registered users, called Redditors, to post content. Each post is open to the entire Reddit community to vote upon, either by down- or upvotes. The most popular posts are featured directly on the front page. Subreddits are available by category and Redditors can follow selected subreddits relevant to their interest and also control what content they see on their custom front page. Some of the most popular subreddits are r/AskReddit or r/AMA – the “Ask Me Anything” format. According to the company, Reddit hosted 1,800 AMAs in 2018, with a wide range of topics and hosts. One of the most popular Reddit AMA of 2022 by number of upvotes was by actor Nicolas Cagem with more than 238.5 thousand upvotes. Reddit usage The United States account for the biggest share of Reddit's desktop traffic, followed by the UK, and Canada. As of March 2023, Reddit ranked among the most popular social media websites in the United States.
Websites in the energy, utilities, and construction sector averaged the largest amount of visits per online session worldwide. In the fourth quarter of 2022, desktop users in that segment visited around seven pages per online session. Travel and hospitality ranked second, with an average of almost six pages visited. In terms of mobile users, travel and hospitality registered the highest number of page views, followed by retail.
As of June 2021, Amazon was the most visited e-commerce site in the United States, recording approximately 2.45 billion monthly visits to Amazon.com. eBay ranked second, with more than 885 million visits per month, while Walmart came in third, surpassing 410 million.
Online retail in a nutshell Online retail in the United States is a multi-billion dollar sector of business-to-consumer transactions where goods and services are sold via the internet. There are several business models at play here with the likes of Walmart, Home Depot, or Target based on brick-and-mortar stores whereas others such as Amazon, eBay, or Etsy are designated online marketplaces. It also includes eBay which allows third-party or private sellers to market their goods.
Online retail sites enable customers to browse through a range of products before placing them into an electronic shopping cart. Unlike their retail counterparts, online retail sites are not bound to a physical location or limited by store opening hours, and as such, have proven themselves immensely convenient for consumers. Apparel & accessories and computers & consumer electronics are some of the most popular e-commerce categories in the United States.
Fast-growing retailers In addition to being the most visited retail site in the United States, Amazon also accounts for the vast majority of e-commerce sales. Over the past few years, Amazon’s retail sales in the United States have grown steadily, however, competition in this space is growing strong. Etsy, followed closely by Walmart and Target, are among the companies that recorded the fastest online retail sales growth in 2021.
In the three shopping center types, indoor malls, open-air shopping centers, and outlet malls, the share of customers' visits that came between the hours of 12 and four o'clock in the afternoon fell slightly from 2022 to 2023. In open-air shopping centers, 42.4 percent of visits in 2023 came during this period.
This statistic illustrates the frequency of visits by shoppers to convenience stores in Great Britain in 2021. Some seven percent of survey respondents stated that they visit convenience stores every day.
This statistic shows the top 30 exhibitions worldwide according to the number of daily visitors in 2010. The exhibition "The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters", had a daily visitor count of 4,785.
In 2023, there were on average 55,476 daily visits to emergency services (ER) across metropolitan France. From a regional perspective, with an average of about 11,545 daily visitors, ERs in the Île-de-France region had the highest number of visits.
In fiscal year 2024, there were approximately 255 million customer visits each week to Walmart stores throughout the world, up from 240 million on a weekly average a year earlier. Walmart Walmart was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton when he and his brother James “Bud” Walton opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City in Rogers, Arkansas. Since then, Walmart has grown to become the largest publicly-owned retail company in the world. In 2024, the retailer reached around 648 billion U.S. dollars in revenues, and about 643 billion in net sales. Store count Walmart had a total of 10,616 retail stores throughout the world as of January 31, 2024. The company also operated 368 distribution facilities. In total Walmart operated 10,984 stores. Compared to 2021, there was a significant drop in the number of stores due to the fact that in the first quarter of fiscal 2022, the company terminated its operations in the United Kingdom and Japan. In the U.S. alone the company totaled 4,615 locations, of which 3,560 were supercenter stores and 695 were neighborhood markets.
In a May 2021 survey, adult U.S. Twitter users were asked how many times per day they visited the social media service. Of high volume tweeters, those who produced an average of 20 or more tweets per month, 28 percent reported that they visited Twitter occasionally and 21 percent said that they visited the site too many times to count. Low volume tweeters visited the networking service significantly less with 8 percent stating that they visited Twitter just once or twice per day.
According to a telephone interview conducted in the United States in February 2021, 49 percent of respondents who used Facebook visited the social media platform several times per day, whilst 22 percent of users visited the site about once a day. Of those who used Snapchat, 45 percent of them used the mobile app several times a day. Regarding Twitter, 30 percent of respondents visited the online social networking service several times a day, whilst 53 percent reported to access it less frequently, meaning they used it a few times a week or every few weeks.
In 2017 and 2018, just over 50 euros on average per day per visitor was spent on accommodation by overnight visitors in Utrecht (Netherlands), whereas the expenditures of food and drinks amounted to 31,50 euros per person per day. The least was spent on theater or concerts, which had an average of 1.40 euros per day by overnight visitors.
The supermarket chain Safeway registered the biggest change in macro visits between the week before and the week of Memorial Day in the United States in 2021, with a 7.1 percent increase in visits. On the other hand, the grocery store chain Trader Joe's saw a decrease in its visits of 2.5 percent.
In March 2024, close to 4.4 billion unique global visitors had visited Wikipedia.org, slightly down from 4.4 billion visitors since August of the same year. Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia with articles generated by volunteers worldwide. The platform is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
This statistic displays how often consumers visit food stores in Canada as of October 2018. Some 62.3 percent of survey respondents stated that they visit a store to purchase food weekly, and 1.4 percent of respondents said they visited daily.
In 2024, the average daily number of visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris declined by 2.6 percent over the previous year. On average, the Louvre, the most visited museum worldwide, welcomed almost 28,000 visitors per opening day in 2024. This figure remained below the average daily attendance reported in 2019, the year before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since June 2022, the popular institution has decided to cap the number of daily admissions at 30,000.