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Acuvue-now.com, June 10, 2009
Every month we are publishing a list of the top 20 online retailers, specializing on selling contact lenses and vision care accessories online. The numbers are based on the latest published numbers from Quantcast. In May, overall traffic to all retailers on the list decreased by 17% compared to the previous month. We believe there are 2 major factors contributing to this weakness.
First, we are approaching the summers months and as such retailers might be facing some slowness due to seasonal aspects of this business. Second, with the overall economy gone down the drain, people are cutting back on their monthly available disposable budget and as such contact lenses might be part this. ("Hey, I'm gonna go back to my eye glasses for a while"). The list: Not much change at the top. The top 5 retailers account for more than 85% of all online visits. Pretty much everyone is suffering from a negative trend (compare to the previous month); only two noticeable exceptions: Opticontacts.com was able to increase their traffic from 5,000 to 12,000 visitors per month and lensworld.com improved traffic to their site from 8,000 to 15,000 monthly visitors. Contact Lens Retailers - Traffic Ranking (May 2009)
| Rank | Online Retailer | April-2009 | May-2009 | Change | | 1 | 1800contacts.com | 650,000 | 535,000 | -18% | | 2 | coastalcontacts.com | 175,000 | 143,000 | -18% | | 3 | visiondirect.com | 110,000 | 91,000 | -17% | | 4 | lens.com | 99,000 | 89,000 | -10% | | 5 | aclens.com | 44,000 | 41,000 | -7% | | 6 | discountcontactlenses.com | 32,000 | 30,000 | -6% | | 7 | contactlensking.com | 22,000 | 17,000 | -23% | | 8 | shipmycontacts.com | 20,000 | 16,000 | -20% | 9
| lensworld.com | 8,000 | 15,000 | 92%
| | 10 | bestcontacts.com | 19,000 | 13,000 | -32% | | 11 | justlenses.com | 16,000 | 13,000 | -19% | | 12 | 1-save-on-lens.com | 19,000 | 12,000 | -37% | | 13 | opticontacts.com | 5,000 | 12,000 | 140% | | 14 | contactlens.com | 17,000 | 11,000 | -35% | | 15 | contactsamerica.com | 9,000 | 5,000 | -44% | | 16 | ezcontactsusa.com | 11,000 | 4,000 | -64% | | 17 | brandnamecontacts.com | 9,000 | 4,000 | -56% | | 18 | 1800getlens.com | 5,000 | 4,000 | -20% | | 19 | lensmart.com | 7,000 | 9,000 | 29% | 20
| shoplens.com | 4,000 | 3,000 | -25% | | 21 | aalens.com | < 1,000
| < 1,000 | - | | | Total Traffic : | 1,281,000 | 1,067,000 | -17% | Our list does not contain any mass merchandisers, general retailers and drugstores such as CostCo, Walgreens, Target etc. |
