US E-Commerce Has Grown By Double Digits For The Past Fourteen Consecutive Quarters [CHART]
- PC-based e-commerce spending in the U.S. grew 12% year-over-year to $56.1 billion in the first quarter of 2014. This is the fourteenth quarter in a row that desktop-based e-commerce spending has grown by double digits.
- Mobile-based e-commerce spending grew 23% year-over-year to $7.3 billion in the first quarter.
- PC-based spending accounted for 88.5% of all e-commerce purchase volume in the first quarter. For comparison, PC-based spending accounted for 89.5% of all e-commerce spending in the first quarter of 2013, so mobile is taking up a bigger share of online purchases.
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