Every year, January is an interesting month at Etsy: we know that sales will be down when compared to the prior month, December, but listings will go up, as folks re-stock their shops after the holiday season. We also pay very close attention to how sales change from week-to-week. As we approach Valentine’s Day we expect the last week of January to exceed the first.We were pleased with January results: the numbers exceeded our expectations in these difficult economic times.The stats:
$9.9 million of goods were sold; roughly 23% below December's sales figure (sales for the last full week of January represented a 9.3% increase above the first full week of January).
That represents 683,369 items sold for the month, a 16.2% decrease from December's stats.- 1,203,417 million new items were listed in January, up from 1,098,644 items or 9.2% vs. December.
- 138,000 new members joined the Etsy community, 16.3% below December's record number of new members.
- 443,468,017 page views were recorded on the site, an 8.1% increase compared to December.