At the request of eMarketer, online measurement comapanies Nielsen//NetRatings and Hitwise each produced a list of the top retail Web sites in the UK, ranked by number of visitors in June 2006. Nielsen//NetRatings also listed the top e-commerce sites in Germany and France.

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