Jupiter Media Metrix released the second installment of its weekly Holiday 2001 E-Commerce Series, revealing the online retail results for the week ending Dec. 2, 2001. The Jupiter Media Metrix Online
Shopping Index, which aggregates web visitors from both home and work to nearly 500 shopping sites and 19 subcategories, increased 45 percent versus the same week last year, climbing from 35.6 million
to 51.7 million unique visitors. Moreover, the index was up 3 percent versus the previous week, when it had 50.2 million visitors.