“Tablets have outpaced smartphones in the sheer amount of traffic they deliver to commerce sites, according to online marketing technology company Monetate,” Ryan Kim reports for GigaOM.

“Monetate, which analyzes more than 100 million online shopping experiences, said that in the first quarter of 2012, tablet traffic to commerce sites hit 6.52 percent, overtaking smartphones (5.35 percent) for the first time,” Kim reports. “In the last year, tablets’ traffic increased 348 percent while smartphones visits grew by 117 percent over the same period.”

Kim reports, “Almost all of the traffic (95 percent) was from the iPad, said Monetate.”

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