Top UK Marketplaces Rankings Tracker – May 2020

We are tracking UK marketplaces over a whole year to compare performance between the different venues you sell on. As we track the runners and riders we expected all marketplaces to see a boost in traffic from the Christmas period compared to three months ago. Today we’re publishing the three months Top UK Marketplaces Rankings Tracker up to April 2020 to reveal their trading performance at the start of the Coroanavirus pandemic.

Data is taken from SimilarWeb and Alexa. Neither are 100% accurate but what they will reveal is a standardised measurement we can use to track increases or decreases in traffic overtime.

This series is sponsored by OnBuy.com, but their metrics will be measured in exactly the same way as the other marketplaces featured. Data for this post was gathered from SimilarWeb and Alexa on the 17th of May 2020.

Amazon.co.uk

Ranking

SimilarWeb

Alexa

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Global Rank #53 #51 #52 #80 #77 #99
Country Rank UK #4 #4 #4 #6 #4 #5

Marketplaces Rankings Tracker Amazon – May 2020

Looking at Amazon’s traffic, there is an obvious dip from the peak Black Friday and Christmas period. However as the Corornavirus lock down took place in mid March there is a definite uptick in traffic. It is unclear why Amazon were so quick to pause incoming FBA shipments and freeze stock already in FBA as even in April traffic was below their normal Christmas volumes. However, what we don’t know is how many products were purchased by these buyers and it’s possible that although they weren’t seeing significant additional traffic that those who were visiting Amazon were buying rather than browsing.

SimilarWeb Traffic Stats

Aug19 – Oct19

Nov19 – Jan20

Feb20 – Apr20

Total Visits 1.154B 1.308B 1.174B
Monthly Visits 384.8M 436.1M 391.4M
Monthly Unique Visitors 82.28M 88.07M 80.61M
Avg. Visit Duration 00:06:14 00:06:24 00:06:04
Pages / Visit 8.15 8.37 7.75
Bounce Rate 37.46% 37.24% 37.77%

eBay.co.uk

Ranking

SimilarWeb

Alexa

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Global Rank #74 #76 #74 #234 #252 #326
Country Rank United Kingdom #7 #8 #5 #9 #10 #13

Marketplaces Rankings Tracker eBay – May 2020

eBay saw a definite rise in traffic as the Coronavirus pandemic took place, and with a raft of measures rapidly rolled out to support their users and no throttling of sales (other than on PPE which only approved sellers are able to list to prevent price gouging), eBay appears to have done well.

Traffic is not only way above the Christmas peak, but is at it’s highest since we started tracking marketplace traffic nine months ago. It’s safe to say that those eBay sellers who were able to stay open and trade through the Coronavirus pandemic should have done very well as there were plenty of buyers.

SimilarWeb Traffic Stats

Aug19 – Oct19

Nov19 – Jan20

Feb20 – Apr20

Total Visits 858.1M 822.0M 835.5M
Monthly Visits 286.0M 274.0M 278.5M
Monthly Unique Visitors 49.68M 48.85M 48.27M
Avg. Visit Duration 00:10:03 00:09:49 00:09:37
Pages / Visit 10.99 10.58 10.60
Bounce Rate 27.37% 28% 28.26%

Gumtree.com

Ranking

SimilarWeb

Alexa

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Global Rank #777 #848 #1281 #2379 #3050 #4657
Country Rank United Kingdom #36 #36 #51 #53 #64 #120

Marketplaces Rankings Tracker Gumtree – May 2020

It’s no real surprise to see Gumtree’s traffic slump the minute the Coronavirus pandemic started to be publicised. Who wants to buy in person from a random stranger when it literally might kill you? Added to the consumer ads, Gumtree are likely to have been hit by a lack of people browsing for motors, property and job ads. Gumtree’s traffic according to SimilarWeb has slumped to a nine month low and it’s likely that only as lock down measures become further relaxed that their service will pick up again.

SimilarWeb Traffic Stats

Aug19 – Oct19

Nov19 – Jan20

Feb20 – Apr20

Total Visits 138.5M 118.8M 105.1M
Monthly Visits 46.17M 39.60M 35.03M
Monthly Unique Visitors 14.25M 12.53M 11.46M
Avg. Visit Duration 00:06:33 00:06:21 00:06:04
Pages / Visit 16.81 6.37 5.85
Bounce Rate 35.58% 36.71% 37.48%

Etsy.com

Ranking

SimilarWeb

Alexa

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Global Rank #118 #108 #90 #140 #137 #138
Country Rank United Kingdom #84 #83 #78

Marketplaces Rankings Tracker Etsy – May 2020

Etsy had a terrible start to trading through the pandemic, but as has been widely publicised saw a massive multi-million dollar selling spree of hand made fabric face masks which rescued their figures. Etsy are traditionally strong at Christmas, so in the last three months beating their Christmas sales is noteworthy. What will be interesting is the longer term impact on Etsy – if too many people lose their jobs or are on reduced income, then the crafty/hobby type goods Etsy sells might be cut from people’s discretionary spend.

SimilarWeb Traffic Stats

Aug19 – Oct19

Nov19 – Jan20

Feb20 – Apr20

Total Visits 647.0M 738.7M 720.5M
Monthly Visits 215.6M 246.2M 240.1M
Monthly Unique Visitors 92.24M 104.8M 100.5M
Avg. Visit Duration 00:06:11 00:06:04 00:06:05
Pages / Visit 6.69 6.34 6.36
Bounce Rate 46.91% 47.59% 47.59%

notonthehighstreet.com

Ranking

SimilarWeb

Alexa

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Global Rank #12,230 #14,130 #11,920 #30,110 #19,188 #38,776
Country Rank United Kingdom #404 #467 #365 #829 #800 #932

Marketplaces Rankings Tracker Notonthehighstreet – May 2020

Notonthehighstreet always see a massive peak from Black Friday and through to Christmas so it’s expected that their sales would be down for the early part of the year. What’s noteworthy is that unlike eBay and Amazon where we can see the graphs trending upwards as early as March when the pandemic started to bite, Notonthehighstreet didn’t see an uptick in traffic according to SimilarWeb data until April. However an uptick is there, not to anywhere near the rise in traffic they saw at Christmas but you should have seen a later increase in sales than on the more general marketplaces.

SimilarWeb Traffic Stats

Aug19 – Oct19

Nov19 – Jan20

Feb20 – Apr20

Total Visits 10.86M 18.71M 10.56M
Monthly Visits 3.622M 6.236M 3.520M
Monthly Unique Visitors 2.321M 3.740M 2.228M
Avg. Visit Duration 00:04:44 00:04:35 00:03:52
Pages / Visit 5.46 5.12 4.57
Bounce Rate 54.07% 52.83% 53.43%

OnBuy.com

Ranking

SimilarWeb

Alexa

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Global Rank #69,594 #71,416 #25,143 #90,602 #93,186 #64,077
Country Rank United Kingdom #3,102 #2,959 #824 #3,938 #6,419 #1,783

Marketplaces Rankings Tracker OnBuy – May 2020

OnBuy are the only marketplace who’s traffic stats on SimilarWeb were already back up to peak trading numbers by February, but nothing prepared us for the exponential increase in traffic they’ve experienced by the end of April. So far this year, their traffic has almost tripled.

Prior to the Coronavirus Pandemic hitting, OnBuy’s traffic was already showing positive growth this year so it’s hard to know how much of their huge spike in traffic to attribute to their expansion efforts and how much is as a result of the pandemic. It’s very likely that as soon as other marketplaces started to run out of stock (or practically shut their doors to sales), that consumers immediately turned to alternatives and if that’s the case then OnBuy were high up the list of marketplace to benefit.

OnBuy is one to watch and increasingly one to stop watching and start listing on if you’re not already. It’s worth noting some of the other steps they have put in place such as doubling their workforce this April and doubling affiliate commissions to attract more traffic – read our special report on OnBuy also published today.

SimilarWeb Traffic Stats

Aug19 – Oct19

Nov19 – Jan20

Feb20 – Apr20

Total Visits 2.099M 2.603M 4.826M
Monthly Visits 699,922 867,774 1.608M
Monthly Unique Visitors 498,018 620,073 1.175M
Avg. Visit Duration 00:02:26 00:02:13 00:02:14
Pages / Visit 5.46 2.86 2.27
Bounce Rate 54.07% 69.95% 70.66%

Fruugo.co.uk

Ranking

SimilarWeb

Alexa

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Global Rank #107,303 #109,879 #49,271 #91,616 #119,081 #153,593
Country Rank United Kingdom #4,759 #5,045 #1,788 #16,950 #5,751

Marketplaces Rankings Tracker Fruugo – May 2020

Fruugo’s traffic suggested that they weren’t having a spectacular start to 2020 but the Coronavirus soon sorted that out. Their sales have sky rocketed and there’s a good chance that at least some of that growth was from overseas consumers shopping internationally as soon as local retailers started to struggle or closed their physical store. Remember, not many consumers use Fruugo as place to start their buying journey, but Fruugo optimise your products on search engines and so have undoubtedly benefited from more consumers tapping a search query into Google and landing on a Fruugo listing.

SimilarWeb Traffic Stats

Aug19 – Oct19

Nov19 – Jan20

Feb20 – Apr20

Total Visits 1.379M 1.497M 2.239M
Monthly Visits 459,819 499,092 746,466
Monthly Unique Visitors 373,028 390,725 611,456
Avg. Visit Duration 00:02:01 00:01:35 00:01:16
Pages / Visit 3.08 2.66 2.18
Bounce Rate 70.83% 71.32% 73.03%

Yumbles.com

Ranking

SimilarWeb

Alexa

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Oct19

Jan20

Apr20

Global Rank #350,286 #373,878 #109,722 #296,886 #300,367 #475,508
Country Rank United Kingdom #18,331 #19,590 #4,476 #9,426

Marketplaces Rankings Tracker Yumbles – May 2020

You know the one thing you still have to buy in a pandemic? Yep, food so it’s no surprise that Yumbles traffic skyrockted as soon as people stopped buying toilet paper and started panic buying food. Can’t get vegan cheese or gluten free bread in the supermarket? There will be a small independent maker on Yumbles who are still operating and can ship to your door within days.

It would be a surprise if Yumbles hadn’t attracted a ton of traffic from foodies when they are locked up in their flats and got nothing better to do than crave their organic, vegan, or dairy free nibbles and if ever a marketplace was in the right place at the right time to serve their ideal consumers it was Yumbles during the UK lock down.

SimilarWeb Traffic Stats

Aug19 – Oct19

Nov19 – Jan20

Feb20 – Apr20

Total Visits 243,864 399,648 635,954
Monthly Visits 81,288 133,216 211,985
Monthly Unique Visitors 56,047 95,593 143,777
Avg. Visit Duration 00:02:59 00:02:31 00:02:22
Pages / Visit 3.38 3.43 4.26
Bounce Rate 69.91% 63.10% 66.33%

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