eCommerce spending up YTD for desktop

Retail eCommerce orders for desktop expanded year-over-year by 16% in Q2 to reach $49.8 billion states ComScore. This expansion of eCommerce sales of 16% represents the 15th consecutive quarter of growth. These figures exclude mobile.

ECommerce sales represented 9.6% of consumers’ discretionary spending for Q2 of 2013.

Five online product categories grew by at least 19%:

• Apparel and accessories;
• Digital content and subscriptions;
• Sport and fitness;
• Consumer packaged goods; and
• Home and garden.