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Ecommerce Beauty Statistics in Italy

Overview of Website Traffic in the Beauty Industry In Italy

The data provided offers key insights into the online performance of various beauty domain websites in Italy. The analysis considers only beauty ecommerce websites with more than 100K visits per month. Traffic share, monthly visits, and engagement metrics like visit duration, pages per visit, and bounce rate reveal the popularity and effectiveness of these platforms in engaging consumers. Domains highlighted in green are commonly authorized retailers by top luxury beauty houses

Top Performers in the Italian Beauty Industry:

Five websites cover the 80% of the total beauty traffic in Italy on a monthly basis, while just 7 unauthorized websites enter the top 20 but with a very low Traffic Share.
In average out of the total monthly visit, around 50% are unique ones, meaning that in average a consumer visit twice a month the website. The visits in average last more than 2 minutes and involve 4 pages, thus with an average time spent on each page of 40 seconds. Also bounce rate is an important parameter, the lower the better.

  • notino.it holds the highest traffic share at 30%, with nearly 4 million monthly visits. Its relatively low bounce rate (47.6%) and high pages per visit (5.41) indicate good user engagement.
  • douglas.it (22% traffic share) and sephora.it (17% traffic share) also rank among the top sites, showing significant market influence.
  • The non-authorized retailers have all worst kpis apart casadelprofumo.it that proposes also testers (not supposed to be sold)

Engagement Metrics:

  • notino.it leads in engagement with the highest number of pages per visit (5.41) and a longer visit duration (00:04:39). This reflects the effectiveness of their site design or content in holding customer attention
  • Sephora.it and Pinalli.it also maintain decent engagement metrics, while Douglas has a shorter visit duration (00:02:48) and lower pages per visit (3.97), potentially indicating less customer interaction or ease of navigation

Importance of Monitoring Authorized Brand Products

Brands in the beauty industry need to be vigilant about who is selling their products online. Authorized retailers' product pages are crucial for brand identity likewise unauthorized retailers can damage brand's reputation and harm consumers.

Brandiving offers to brands two solutions to support brands:

  • Price Monitoring: a tool that automatically detect prices of selected products in authorized and unauthorized ecommerce websites in specific countries notifying the brand if any aggressive promotion is active. Discover more here
  • CARS: a tool that scans daily the product pages on selected ecommerce website detecting variations in price, availability, rate and reviews, text descriptions and images, and notifying the brand for any change. Brandiving has the most extensive coverage on beauty players online in Italy: Notino, Douglas, Sephora, Pinalli, Marionnaud, Lookfantastic but any can be included. Discover more here

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