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    Adobe: Tablet Traffic Grows 10 Times Faster Than Smartphones

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    May 15, 2012
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      Tablet devices will generate more Web traffic than smartphones by early 2013, according to the Adobe Digital Index.

      The report from Adobe Systems looks at how global Website traffic and engagement differ when the visitor is on a tablet, smartphone or PC. The report concluded that consumers find browsing Websites on tablets nearly as engaging as on PCs.

      Indeed, the results indicate that tablets have become a channel very distinct from smartphones. While apps have proven a highly valuable and important component of a mobile strategy, companies would be well-served to invest in optimizing mobile Web pages for the growing tablet demographic, which tends to be affluent, Adobe said.

      €œAs businesses rethink their digital experiences to include mobile strategies, tablets are emerging as the consumer device of choice,€ Brad Rencher, senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Marketing Business at Adobe, said in a statement. €œDigital CMOs [chief marketing offers] are wise to take a mobile first approach to optimize their digital content and marketing initiatives with a focus on the tablet experience because the consumer demands it.€

      Adobe released the findings from its latest Adobe Digital Index at its Adobe Digital Marketing Summit EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), which is taking place in London May 15 and 16.

      According to the Adobe report, the share of Website visits from tablets grew approximately 10 times faster than the rate for smartphones in the first two years after market introduction and grew more than 300 percent in the last year. This rapid growth is driven by both higher rates of tablet shipments and a disproportionately higher number of Website visits per tablet than smartphones. In addition to finding that tablets€™ share of Website traffic will exceed smartphone traffic by early 2013, the Adobe report also indicated that tablet traffic will reach 10 percent of total Website traffic in 2014. Although consumers consider the tablet Website experience to be nearly as engaging as that of PCs, they use PCs to visit Websites three times as frequently as tablets.

      This study expands on the findings from the initial Adobe Digital Index report on the value of tablet users to retail companies released in January 2012, which suggested that in 2011 tablet users spent more per purchase than other online customers. This study analyzed 23 billion visits to the Websites of 325 companies from North America, Western Europe (Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) and Asia (China, India, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand).

      Darryl K. Taft
      Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.

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