WAL-MART SITE RETAINS LEAD IN UNIQUE HITS.(top 10 home retailer Web sites ranked by visitors in Feb. 2003)(Brief Article)

HFN: The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network, March, 2003

NEW YORK-Wal-Mart's Web site kept its months-long lead in February in attracting the largest number of unique visitors among home furnishings retailers.

A monthly tabulation of the site's capacity to lure visitors found that more than 9.3 million Internet users clicked onto Walmart.com at least once during February.

Unique visitors are counted only once, regardless of how often they hit a site from home, office or university.

Among the top 10 sites,visitors remained the longest at Office Depot. But among all sites monitored, Landsend.com and Brylanehome.com kept visitors the longest, on average, at 17.9 and 17.7 minutes, respectively.

FEBRUARY'S TOP HOME RETAILER WEB SITES

(Visitors in thousands)

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