We are pleased to announce that the Akamai Net Usage Index for Retail has taken a new form — as a Desktop Widget. This Widget enables users to monitor the world's online retail consumption from their desktop, providing real-time insight into the trends of consumers online buying habits.

Features:
- Aggregate, real-time visitors per minute for a representative set of more than 200 global retail/e-commerce sites
- E-commerce traffic levels by continent over a 24-hour period
- Historical data on e-commerce growth and spikes by geography