Top E-Tailers of February 2000
The top e-tailers of February 2000 among home Internet users, according to PC Data Online.
With more than 1 million unique buyers and a 28 percent jump in traffic, CDNow.com claimed the No. 1 position on February’s Top 20 Retailers list, according to PC Data Online.
CDNow unseated amazon.com, which has reigned in the top spot since June 1999, when PC Data Online first began tracking Web buying patterns. Amazon.com logged 984,000 unique buyers in February, falling below the 1 million unique buyers’ mark for the first time since August 1999. At the same time, Amazon.com had considerably larger traffic numbers than CDNow.com’s 8.2 million.
| Top 20 Web Retailers Among US Home Users February, 2000 |
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| Feb. Rank |
Jan. Rank |
Web Site | Projected Buyers (000) |
Overall Reach (%) |
Unique Users (000) |
Buy Rate (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | cdnow.com | 1,026 | 12.3 | 8,263 | 12.4 |
| 2 | 1 | amazon.com | 984 | 19.8% | 13,274 | 7.4 |
| 3 | 2 | americangreetings.com | 851 | 14.9% | 9,998 | 8.5 |
| 4 | 6 | ticketmaster.com | 385 | 4.8 | 3,254 | 11.8 |
| 5 | 4 | barnesandnoble.com | 250 | 7.5 | 5,008 | 5.0 |
| 6 | 10 | drugstore.com | 232 | 2.4 | 1,591 | 14.6 |
| 7 | 9 | buy.com | 230 | 3.4 | 2,281 | 10.1 |
| 8 | 7 | more.com | 223 | 1.8 | 1,187 | 18.8 |
| 9 | 8 | iprint.com | 208 | 5.2 | 3,511 | 5.9 |
| 10 | 5 | egghead.com | 159 | 3.6 | 2,450 | 6.5 |
| 11 | 19 | mothernature.com | 154 | 1.8 | 1,214 | 12.7 |
| 12 | 15 | healthquick.com | 147 | 1.6 | 1,065 | 13.8 |
| 13 | 26 | 1800flowers.com | 135 | 2.6 | 1,731 | 7.8 |
| 14 | 23 | yahoo.com | 128 | 56.0 | 37,583 | 0.3 |
| 15 | 11 | gateway.com | 119 | 3.0 | 2,048 | 5.8 |
| 16 | 18 | fingerhut.com | 117 | 1.8 | 1,239 | 9.5 |
| 17 | 25 | netflix.com | 116 | 0.6 | 370 | 31.3 |
| 18 | 28 | pets.com | 111 | 1.6 | 1,084 | 10.2 |
| 19 | 16 | planetrx.com | 110 | 2.1 | 1,427 | 7.7 |
| 20 | 31 | petstore.com | 102 | 2.4 | 1,588 | 6.4 |
| Source: PC Data Online | ||||||
