Report Shows Heritage Auctions Website Most Popular Auction House Site
DALLAS, TX - Heritage Auctions’ website, HA.com, proved itself the dominant online auction source last month, obliterating its competition with nearly 725,000 unique visitors to Heritage Auctions site in the first month of 2012, according to Compete.com, a website devoted to tracking web traffic. Compete.com ranked HA.com as one of the top 3,000 sites in America (there are over 150,000,000 American web sites) at #2,967.
“Our exact number of unique visitors last month was actually 724,931,” said James Halperin, Co-Chairman of Heritage Auctions, “No other major auction house came close to those numbers.”
The total number of unique visitors to HA.com is nearly double the combined total number of unique visits the websites of Heritage Auctions’ five closest competitors’ web sites (Christies ranked as #9093, Sothebys #36,342, Bonhams #36,363, Stacks & Bowers #154,997 and Phillips De Pury #244,256) received in the last 12 months. Christies.com, was the closest, with just more than 238,000 unique visitors:
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“We put a tremendous amount of research and time into making our website comprehensive, customer friendly and easily accessible,” said Halperin. “Collectors, historians and art aficionados alike have responded with great enthusiasm. We’re humbled and grateful for that support and will continue to strive to make HA.com one of the most useful sites on the web.”
Heritage Auctions, headed by Steve Ivy, Jim Halperin and Greg Rohan, is the world’s third largest auction house, with annual sales more than $800 million, and 700,000+ online bidder members. For more information about Heritage Auctions, and to join and gain access to a complete record of prices realized, along with full-color, enlargeable photos of each lot, please visit HA.com.
Want to get the up-to-the-minute updates and breaking news stories about Heritage Auctions? Get them as they happen at: www.Twitter.com/HeritageAuction; Facebook: www.HA.com/Facebook.To view a complete archive of Heritage press releases go to: HA.com/PR. To link to this press release on your blog or Website: HA.com/PR-2163.
“Our exact number of unique visitors last month was actually 724,931,” said James Halperin, Co-Chairman of Heritage Auctions, “No other major auction house came close to those numbers.”
The total number of unique visitors to HA.com is nearly double the combined total number of unique visits the websites of Heritage Auctions’ five closest competitors’ web sites (Christies ranked as #9093, Sothebys #36,342, Bonhams #36,363, Stacks & Bowers #154,997 and Phillips De Pury #244,256) received in the last 12 months. Christies.com, was the closest, with just more than 238,000 unique visitors:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ha.com/
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/christies.com/
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/sothebys.com/
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/bonhams.com/
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stacksbowers.com/
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/phillipsdepury.com.com/
“We put a tremendous amount of research and time into making our website comprehensive, customer friendly and easily accessible,” said Halperin. “Collectors, historians and art aficionados alike have responded with great enthusiasm. We’re humbled and grateful for that support and will continue to strive to make HA.com one of the most useful sites on the web.”
Heritage Auctions, headed by Steve Ivy, Jim Halperin and Greg Rohan, is the world’s third largest auction house, with annual sales more than $800 million, and 700,000+ online bidder members. For more information about Heritage Auctions, and to join and gain access to a complete record of prices realized, along with full-color, enlargeable photos of each lot, please visit HA.com.
Want to get the up-to-the-minute updates and breaking news stories about Heritage Auctions? Get them as they happen at: www.Twitter.com/HeritageAuction; Facebook: www.HA.com/Facebook.To view a complete archive of Heritage press releases go to: HA.com/PR. To link to this press release on your blog or Website: HA.com/PR-2163.
