The Internet properties of the 100 largest high street retailers in the UK, such as Argos, Next, and Marks & Spencer, received 19.3% more UK Internet visits during July 2008 than the 100 largest online-only retailers, such as Amazon, Play.com and ASOS. MORE

UK Internet visits to weblogs reached an all-time high during the week ending 7/6/2008, with traffic to the Hitwise Lifestyle - Blogs and Personal Websites category accounting for 1.19% of all UK Internet traffic, equivalent to one in every 84 website visits. MORE

House prices have become a British pre-occupation to rival the weather, although the nature of that obsession has changed as the boom times have been replaced with concern about falling values. MORE

Hitwise data for March revealed that Google Internet properties send over one-third of all Internet traffic to websites in the UK: a custom category consisting of the 100 most visited web properties in the UK that are owned by Google Inc. accounted for 36.55% of upstream traffic to All Categories of websites, up from 30.19% in March 2007. MORE

UK Internet visits to Shopping & Classifieds - Ticketing websites increased 49% between the weeks ending 29 March and 5 April 2008, with growth driven by a number of factors including: the sale of tickets for popular music festivals such as Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, the growth of ticket resale and exchange websites such as Viagogo, Seatwave and MyTicketMarket, and the increasing popularity of online ticket websites amongst older UK Internet users. MORE

February was a bumper month for the Flower sector due to Valentine's Day and Mother's Day falling so close together this year. MORE

Whatever the fate of old-fashioned 'hard copy' newspapers in the age of the Internet and free newspapers on public transport, one thing is certain: their online properties are thriving. MORE

The number of UK searches for post-Christmas sales online more than trebled during the 2007 holiday period, with 249% more UK Internet searches for the term 'sales' for the week ending 29 December 2007 than for the comparable week in 2006. MORE