In France, more than 70% of internet users have visited an e-commerce website in Q3 2008 - study

In Q3 2008, 70.8 percent of French internet users, representing more than 22 million customers, visited one of the country's top 15 online shops every month in Q3 2008.

eBay ranks highest in terms of unique visitors (12.36 million) for the period under review, followed by online retailer PriceMinister with 8.89 million visitors, voyages-sncf.com (a website for online reservations for train tickets) with 8.19 million visitors, Fnac and La Redoute with 7.06 million and 7.01 million visitors respectively. Amazon came sixth, with 6.79 million visitors. As far as online travel agencies across France are concerned, during Q3 2008, voyages-sncf.com was the most visited one, followed by lastminute.com, with 2.9 million visitors, Promovacances with 2.68 million visitors and Nouvelles Frontieres 2.52 million visitors.

Data has been released by Mediametrie.