Web Hosting Trends for 2006

iSeaNetworks is on a mission to help businesses host their websites. Seattle Company makes every effort in providing outstanding support and affordable services. *Online traffic and sales will reach record numbers in 2006 and continue to grow through 2008. There is definitely room for additional websites and products on the internet in 2006. If you are thinking about creating a website you have just made the right click. *US eCommerce will hit $230 billion in online retail sales by 2008. That is up from $96 billion in 2003. By 2008 online retail sales will account for 10% or more of the total US retail sales in 2008. There will be a total of 64 million US consumers that will shop online by 2008. There will also be an expected 245 million US surfers on the internet. That is up from 234 million in 2003. More shoppers are buying books and travel packages. We will see growth in food and beverage, sporting goods, home goods and others. *Consumers are enjoying the many advantages from shopping online. These advantages consist of saving time, convenience, and availability of information from vendors, no pressure from sales people and better prices. Efforts by online retailers to optimize online shopping experiences will help spark this growth over the next three years. Online retailers are investing more heavily in site design, usability testing and high performance servers with minimal downtime. The founder of iSeaNetworks, Robin Casey says, "Growth on the internet means that there is a strong need for business owners to get a website. We want to help businesses get on the web. By offering affordable Linux web hosting, merchant accounts and script install services we hope to inspire new and existing website owners to make their dreams a reality." *Data provided by eMarketer and Internet World Stats. You have my permission to distribute this article as long as my author bio and content has not been changed or removed. All rights reserved.