10 Statistics that UK Ecommerce Retailers should know
By Reza Amin In Ecommerce StatisticsIf you are involved with online retail or ecommerce websites in UK, then you must know below statistic facts about the UK Ecommerce.
- Moreover, 83% of people in the UK spend time on the Internet every day.
- 77% of Brits purchase things online at least once a month which makes theUK global number 1 in on-line shopping. Hip hip hooray!!!
- By 2016 in the UK one in four of all retail purchases will be online.
- On-line payment method in the UK are: 40% Credit Card, 35% Debit Card, 21% PayPal and 4% other.
- Tablet usage has increased from 4% in 2011 to 40% in 2014.
- Online behaviour drives offline sales. Over 40% of UK retails consumers perform online research before going to store. 71% of consumers used a Store Locator to find a store on mobile devices.
- International sales offer a significant opportunity. For Asos for example: over 65% of the group’s total sale are from overseas.
- 40% of consumers (2 out of every 5) prefer social logins over creating a new or guest account.
- Google remains the king of search with over 88% of searches in the UK.
- Magento is the dominant ecommerce platform with over 31% share of the market (even though with the poor code base, fundamental SEO issues and very slow first byte time)
Sources: Google Insight, Payvision, aheadworks, Netmarketshare, Boston Consulting Group, URLrate