Monday, The Busiest E-commerce Day of the Week

If you own any kind of business, chances are that Monday is your busiest day. Your customers seem to have issues and problems on Monday more than any other day. It's also the most widely shopped day on the Internet. And I should know, I manage more than 20 e-commerce sites. I'm not exactly sure why Monday is the busiest day, I guess it boils down to customers who waited too long the previous week and are trying to get a head start. Or they thought about placing an order over the weekend and waited until they got to work on Monday to place it.

Here is some data from a couple of my e-commerce clients about the most ordered days of the week over the past 6 months.

Client A
Monday = 16.69%
Tuesday = 16.58%
Wednesday = 16.54%
Thursday = 16.12%
Friday = 14.90%
Saturday = 10.04%
Sunday = 9.12%

Client B
Monday = 16.85%
Tuesday = 15.44%
Wednesday = 14.16%
Thursday = 13.51%
Friday = 12.01%
Saturday = 12.36%
Sunday = 15.66%

Also notice how the number of orders declines steadily during the week until it hits the slowest day on Sunday.