Cyber Monday 2016: Over $3b In Sales Makes For Record-Setting Online Shopping Day

If you made a purchase online during Cyber Monday: Congratulations, you were part of history. According to an analysis of visitors to retail sites conducted by Adobe, Cyber Monday 2016 was the biggest online shopping day ever. A record-setting $3.39 billion dollars was spent on Monday--a 10.2 percent increase from the amount spent in 2015. Though the holiday for online shoppers saw a significant bump from the year prior, it only narrowly surpassed this year's Black Friday in online sales. The analysis from Adobe is based on aggregated and anonymous data collected from more than 23 billion visits to retail websites.