September marks the beginning of apple picking season here in New York, bringing a bounty of Golden Delicious, Fuji and other tasty varieties into everyone’s kitchens. The Etsy community shared the fruits of their labor this month as well, setting new records across the board.
The stats:
- $76.8 million of goods (after refunds and cancellations) were sold by our community in September, 0.8% higher than August’s $76.2 million
- That represents 3,988,852 items sold for the month, 4.9% higher than August’s 3,802,480
- 2,530,651 items were listed in the month, 2.9% higher than August’s 2,459,069
- 866,750 new members joined the Etsy community in the month, up 14,879, or 1.7%, from August
- 1.42 billion page views were recorded on the site in September
The $76.8 million of goods sold (after refunds and cancellations) represents a 69% increase from September 2011′s total. At the same time, items sold were up 72.6%.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Etsy community in September!
Curious about how other months compare? Check out our past Weather Reports for more statistics.
81 comments
Sign in to add your ownLori from riskybeads says:
wow, these numbers continue to amaze!!
215 days ago
Janet Howard from JHFabricCreations says:
What a huge number of new members. Can you break that down as to how many were new shops vs buyer only accounts?
215 days ago
Jill Marshall from preppypieces says:
Wow. Amazing stats. Congrats all around. Very encouraging numbers.
215 days ago
Robyn Klauer from georgiedesigns says:
My stats every month almost exactly correlate with Etsy's overall when looking at the months from year to year! Exciting!
215 days ago
Nathalie from NathalieVan says:
Interesting to see how etsy is growing. I hope the trend continues into the future!
215 days ago
Robin from CustomPortraitArt says:
Etsy continues to be a nice slice of the pie of my portrait sales!
215 days ago
Kimberly Chaney from ecsquared says:
Interesting facts :) Congrats everyone.
215 days ago
Gypsymoondesigns from Gypsymoondesigns says:
Thanks for the report.
215 days ago
Jolynn from lifemeetsart says:
Great numbers! Hope the holidays see a year over year increase as well.
215 days ago
Felice Sereno from FeliceSereno says:
wow so many people signing up!!!!!
215 days ago
Jen Lee from ScribblingClubBaby says:
Thanks!
215 days ago
Monika from QuiltLover says:
Wow! I am happy to say that I am part of those awesome stats.
215 days ago
Andi and Isaac from RaleighVintage says:
69% increase over LY...that is a number most businesses dream of! Congrats to all of us!
215 days ago
Faro from OhFaro says:
This September was my best ever here on etsy. Thanks!
215 days ago
Amber from CountryBabyHandmade says:
I'm seeing the increase here! Thanks!
215 days ago
awkward from awkward says:
If the increase in items sold is greater than the increase in revenue, does that mean there's a trend towards lower-priced items? I need to look at the rest of the numbers more closely when I have more time to be able to know how this should affect my decisions as an individual seller, but as good as these numbers are for Etsy, I'm not sure Etsy's increase in size , and the way those increases are happening and handled, is always going to be good for me as an independent designer/maker.
215 days ago
OldLikeUs from OldLikeUs says:
I'm hoping the increase in members were the buying types :-) Wouldn't that be nice!
215 days ago
Megan from MegansMenagerie says:
So glad to be part of it :) Those numbers are amazing!
215 days ago
Amanda Jayne from MsAmandaJayne says:
Excellent!
215 days ago
RainbowOrigami from RainbowOrigami says:
69 and 72 %!!!! That's amazing!!!
215 days ago
Tami Lopez from TamiLopezDesigns says:
May the trends continue!!!
215 days ago
Eduardo G. from MexFabricSupplies says:
I joined in September and I already have 31 sales! I'm so excited to be here!
215 days ago
Suzi from ThePillowStudioShop says:
I am so curious what this means for the holiday season (if thats when things are really suppose to pick up). I love the updates. Thanks
215 days ago
AntwarePottery from AntwarePottery says:
missing: total members,split between shop or buyer only accounts. Would like to know how many total stores are opened for business so I could see the average growth per store.
215 days ago
Jane from JacarandaDesigns says:
Wow! Great numbers. I'd love to know the breakdown of sales by high level category.
215 days ago
Megan C from BrooklynLoveDesigns says:
wow! Thanks for the info
215 days ago
Steph from OneStitchDesigns says:
interesting :) my sales were up about 60% over last year's september
215 days ago
crochetgal from crochetgal says:
Very interesting. I'd love to see these stats broken down a bit better to include purchases via DC, Paypal and other forms as well.
215 days ago
Renata and Jonathan from RenataandJonathan says:
Thank you !
215 days ago
pamwares from pamwares says:
I would like to see more detailed results as well. One thing I would like to see is how many shops are closed each month? Something like....example: # of shops on etsy at the EOM Sept: 10,000 # of new shops opened in the month of Sept: 1,000 # of shops closed in the month of Sept: 200 # of shops with no sales for the month of Sept: 100 Also a break down of sales by price point. We look at this all of the time at my retail job. example again.... $1.00 - $24.99: 10,000 $25 - 49.90: 15,000 $50-99.90: 5,000 Over $100: 200
215 days ago
Jim McLean from BackyardBrand says:
Can't wait to see next month's (post Browse-Page rollout).
215 days ago
Jim McLean from BackyardBrand says:
The month-to-month .8% increase is less than half of last year's for Sept.
215 days ago
Jim McLean from BackyardBrand says:
Here's the 2011 post for same period http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2011/etsy-statistics-september-2011-weather-report/
215 days ago
AeridesDesigns from AeridesDesigns says:
I do enjoy these reports, and overall year over year growth is always good. But one comparison that concerns me indicates the average sale is trended downward: 0.8% increase in dollars, vs. 4.9% increase in items sold, means the average $ per item sold went down by 4.1%. This could just be a reflection on the changing seasonal shop offerings, or more influx of lower price items and lower-price shopper expectations.
215 days ago
J. Roshak from Joyfulghans says:
This is amazing. September was my worst month in number of views, with zero sales. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong anymore. Others are having success, yet I can't sell afghans even after I've marked them down. I do know this new way of "finding items" hurt me a lot and I'm not certain how to compensate. It's discouraging. The things I thought were helping me before, I was told were useless and didn't contribute to the *community.* Oh, well, maybe this will be a better month, although it certainly has not been so far. My views have been even worse so far. Sorry to be the spoiler in the party. Just very discouraged with yet another reminder that I'm not doing things right.
215 days ago
brooks barrow from brooksbarrow says:
Wow, that's a lot of traffic & sales!
215 days ago
brooks barrow from brooksbarrow says:
@ J.Roshak... Keep your chin up! The numbers above are very general, of course. Have you thought about connecting with a critique team here on etsy? Its a great opportunity to have some successful shop owners take a look at your shop and offer advice on how to tweak things.
215 days ago
Pat Parker from PatsPottery says:
My sales continue to improve each year, along with etsy♥
215 days ago
Villa Collezione from VillaCollezione says:
amazing stats! yay!
215 days ago
Katia from Plushka says:
Wow, very impressive! Thrilled to be a small but important part of those sales percentages:)
215 days ago
Lisa Steiner from ElainaLouiseStudios says:
Great numbers!
215 days ago
Claudine Intner from claudine says:
Yeah!
214 days ago
Megan Martin from SpiceofLifeDesigns says:
whoa... so after finally reaching an average sold item price of $20 ($20.03 in Aug '12) it dropped to $19.25 in September? Not a good trend...
214 days ago
Debbie and Sarah from FelixFunhouse says:
Sweet
214 days ago
HouseHoldWords from HouseHoldWords says:
Thank you for posting the reports.
214 days ago
Scott from vinylclockwork says:
Great Numbers Keep up the Great Work Guys
214 days ago
Fawn and Alohi from HanaMauiCreations says:
Wonderful!
213 days ago
juln from LievanoGlass says:
It would be great if someday, Etsy actually put enough information into these reports to make them statistically meaningful. I mean, Texas receives more raindrops than Rhode Island, overall, but so what?
213 days ago
Andrew Konkle from Theteepeeguy says:
It will be increasing to see October stats month to month.
213 days ago
David Bjorkgren from mountainbrook says:
Let's see what this new unasked for browsing brings for Oct 2012. I bet it will be awful.
212 days ago
Jimmie and Carolyn Bartlett from JimmiesArt says:
It would be useful to have the stats of categories. Also number of shops in each category would be good information. Any level of stats in detail would help us in marketing our wares in shops.
211 days ago
Vina from VinaDesign says:
Wow,great!! n_n
211 days ago
LaECLECTICa from Laeclectica says:
Thanks : )
211 days ago
Tom's Grossmami from tomsgrossmami says:
Thanks.
211 days ago
Elena Polko from FashionTouch says:
September was not a good month for. Sales 0.8% higher than August, compared in August, 9.7% higher than July. September was a poor month. So far this October is slightly better for me than September, but much worse than last year October. I guess the idea of changing front page categories didnt work well, will need lots of work and input. I dont think it should be planned for the busy holiday season. As for my items, it is very hard to find them in the "new categories" and since the recent change of the front page became worse, I can figur out how the search works nowadays and where it comes sorted by relevancy (which we all aimed for) or recency. Cant wait to see the stats for October and would like to see overall stats compared to the last year, month by month. it may be a good idea to have everything returned back as it was. Stats does show it all.
211 days ago
Alisa Kiskis Bartel from CreationbyKiskis says:
Hopefully, next month will be even better.
210 days ago
Lana from HoneyPieDesign says:
I'm glad we are helping you be successful Etsy. Hope you can help us now and listed to all the complaints about the lack of sales since you changed Browse. I am selling less than a quarter of what I did compared to August and September.
208 days ago
Janine Daly from BeadAndAPrayerEtsy says:
Thanks ,I am new to Etsy this is nice to know.
208 days ago
John Gibbons from gibbonsglass says:
Looking like a good October too!
208 days ago
Jesse Esquivel from NuevoWoodcrafts says:
Great numbers!
207 days ago
TheSewingGin from TheSewingGin says:
Always interesting numbers.
207 days ago
Shelley Szczucki from thecharmingplace says:
I did get a few sales this month.....great numbers. http://www.thecharmingplace.com
207 days ago
Jenna Frist from FristVintage says:
all i can say is wowowowowowowowowowowowowow! This is great news and I love to read this kind of statistics. Congrats Etsy, you deserve this success!
207 days ago
Janine from MomsantiquesNthings says:
Wish I knew where those sellers were, they didn't visit my shop! I thought September was my worst month of the year, until October hit, it's now gone from bad to worse. With all of the changes here, i'm now completely buried and since Etsy is my only income, i've been a seller on Etsy since 2007, now i'm forced to look elsewhere to sell. This time of year is usually the start of my best sales and if I can't sell during this time of year, i'm going to have to shut this shop down! It's very depressing!
206 days ago
KUKLAstudio from KUKLAstudio says:
I'm with you Janine and all the others who don't find the situation so optimistic. My views and sales were always going up when compared with last year same time. That ended this September, it's the worst month for me this year and normally September is going up. Only now that October is approaching its end I see that October will be even worst. I'm almost invisible, there is no place for my items in the new Browsing system, I get no orders, almost no convos and sometimes have only 2-3 views per hour. I wish the weather report could be more detailed so we can actually use the information. I also wish that this kind of big changes are not made just before the Christmas season but I guess I know by now how much sellers opinions are valued around here.
206 days ago
Joan from WhitebirdDesign says:
Wow! Sounds impressive, but sales and activity have going down for me too (after an incredibly good August!), and so far Oct is my slowest month in over 2 years. Just when I think I have things figured out; everything changes!
206 days ago
gilded in gypsy from gildedingypsy says:
Wow, those are some amazing stats! Let's hope that they continue to grow!
206 days ago
glenda from glendalee says:
Numbers are nice and easy to understand, but I would so dearly love to see a breakdown by categories of sales $ and items. There is a big interest in SEO. I hope the effort I put into making my listings, tags and categories work for me is measurable in an Etsy-wide way. I do really appreciate the stats page for my items, but I want to know how delicious the slice of the bigger sales pie I'm part of really is.
205 days ago
meiresthaidesign from meiresthaidesign says:
I like to know which country has the largest buyers!
205 days ago
Karen Young from loosepetals says:
My sales were growing and fantastic until October, something changed and it wasn't my skylines! I think the new categories were not a good change at all.
204 days ago
Giftbearer from Giftbearer says:
Lke others have said, something really changed in October. Not bad views but the ratio to sales is not what it should be. Why all the bouncing? Would like to know exactly what is selling. It would be good to know stats for what is selling in each category; maybe the top 10 types of items within categories. Another thing that would be interesting to know is how many items sold over $100 this year versus last year.
204 days ago
Lois from VictorianGypsygirl says:
Thank you. Thank you to all the people who have mentioned the new way to browse has hurt Etsy shops. I am lost in all the viewings since this has started. In order for me to have the same amount of listings viewed, I have to up my advertising amounts. However, as of this morning, I had to stop my ads as the largest Hurricane is hitting the Mid-Atlantic states and New England, just where I am located. Unfortunately, this will affect Etsy shops on the eastern seaboard. My very best of all the Etsy shops. The shoppkeepers and customers of Etsy, are wonderful, I have to admit.
203 days ago
Michelle from TheSilverWren says:
Amazing stats!
203 days ago
NorthcottWilson from NorthcottWilson says:
I agree with Lana and Janine... for me October 2012 was much slower than Oct 2011 or Oct 2010. Despite checking and re-checking my tags, most of my items don't show up in Browse. My primary product is silk yarn; last week I scrolled through all 22 pages of Browse's Yarn/Silk and not one of my listings was displayed there. But perhaps Etsy adjusted the algorithm after so many seller complaints - yesterday I checked Browse again and finally some of my listings were appearing.
203 days ago
Karen Young from loosepetals says:
I've been selling art for 20 years, one reason why October sales could be down, is that election years buyers do not spend as much. The weather from the storms could deter the entire gift shopping experience, as people focus more on survival stuff. I wrote an email to Etsy to seek further explanation on changes in the search and they said they did a lot of research before changing the search and feel that is was a change for the best. It would be good for those who feel there sales have been hurt by the new search to forward their opinions to support.
202 days ago
Roberta Valle from RobertaValle says:
wow, these numbers continue to amaze!!
199 days ago
V Lynn from BourgeoisDesigns says:
Awesome, wonderful numbers.
198 days ago
Molly Shannon from MullaneInk says:
awesome! Congrats to everyone with sales and keep up the hard work!
193 days ago
Becky Hatlee from GypsyFriday says:
I would like to know how many active sellers are currently on etsy. I know that number changes (probably by the hour ... or minute!) ... but I'm curious for perhaps an average number of active sellers. Anyone know where I can get that info? I've looked all over and can't find it anywhere.
192 days ago
Chrystal from TheCozyCubby says:
Intersting, I am more interested, in open and functioning shops instead of just new accounts.
189 days ago
Lady Pashmina from LadyPashmina says:
wow huge numbers overall but I'm not seeing this on a individual level.
125 days ago