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It's almost 4 months since I've dived into our Web analyst's monthly report. Usually I'm quite satisfied with the improvements in the bottom line numbers. Now, that I was looking at other things of interest I've realized that since our Christmas success we've experienced a continuous traffic growth in the Shopping Centers and Outlet Malls segment of our website.

I've decided it's about time to write another nice post about our joint effort.

From the SW department I've been informed that in few days we're gonna release a completely new SW version that would upgrade the user's experience, especially in the Attraction pages, introducing new planning features. "Good job!!!"

And now for the fun part. Here's the list the most popular Shopping Centers / Outlet Malls as it was ordered by our Web analyst to reflect the number of entries they got between the 1st of January and Ending of April:

1. Broward Mall - Plantation, Florida
2. Roosevelt Field Mall - Long Island, New York
3. Smithhaven Mall - Lake Grove, New York
4. Natick Mall - Massachusetts
5. Prime Outlets Mall - Orlando, Florida
6. Sawgrass Mills Outlet Mall - Sunrise, Florida
7. Southridge Mall - Greendale, Wisconsin
8. The Avenues Mall - Jacksonville, Florida
9. Dolphin Outlet Mall - Miami, Florida
10. Solomon Pond Mall - Marlborough, Massachusetts
11. Del Amo Mall Fashion Center - Torrance, California
12. St. Louis Mills Outlet Mall - Hazelwood, Missouri
13. Katy Mills Outlet Mall - Texas
14. The Galleria Mall - Houston, Texas
15. Dadeland Mall - Miami, Florida
16. Northgate Mall - Seattle, Washington
17. Clackamas Town Center Mall - Portland, Oregon
18. Woodbury Common Premium Outlets Mall - New York
19. Palisades Center Mall - New York
20. Franklin Mills Outlet Mall - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
21. Oakbrook Mall - Oak Brook, Illinois
22. Ontario Mills Outlet Mall - California
23. Colorado Mills Outlet Mall - Lakewood, Colorado
24. Potomac Mills Outlet Mall - Prince William, Virginia
25. Alderwood Mall - Lynnwood, Washington
26. Stoneridge Mall - Pleasanton, California
27. Bellevue Square Mall - Washington
28. Ross Park Mall - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
29. Tysons Corner Center Mall - Virginia
30. Pearlridge Shopping Center - Aiea, Hawaii
31. Cabazon Outlet Mall - California
32. Gravois Bluffs Plaza - Fenton, Missouri
33. Westfield South Shore Mall - Bayshore, New York
34. Westfield Santa Anita Mall - Arcadia, California
35. Gurnee Mills Outlet Mall - Illinois
36. Walden Galleria - Buffalo, New York
37. Washington Square Mall - Portland, Oregon
38. Lloyd Center Mall - Portland, Oregon
39. Colonial Bell Air Mall - Mobile, Alabama
40. Arundel Mills Mall - Hanover, Maryland
41. Mall at Millenia - Orlando, Florida
42. Oxford Valley Mall - Langhorne, Pennsylvania
43. Monmouth Mall - Eatontown, New Jersey
44. The Florida Mall - Orlando, Florida
45. Green Acres Mall - Valley Stream, New York
46. Fashion Valley Mall - San Diego, California
47. The Designer Outlet Gallery - Secaucus, New Jersey
48. The Mall at Stonecrest - Lithonia, Georgia
49. Opry Mills Outlet Mall - Nashville, Tennessee
50. Mayfair Mall - Wisconsin
51. Deerbrook Mall - Humble, Texas
52. Brea Mall - California
53. South Coast Plaza Mall - Costa Mesa, California
54. Willowbrook Mall - Wayne, New Jersey
55. Park City Center Mall - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
56. Memorial City Mall - Houston, Texas
57. Gulf Coast Town Center - Fort Myers, Florida
58. Sunrise Mall - Long Island, New York
59. Cherry Creek Mall - Denver, Colorado
60. Burlington Center Mall - Massachusetts
61. West Town Mall - Knoxville, Tennessee
62. Aventura Mall - Miami, Florida
63. White Marsh Mall - Baltimore, Maryland
64. South Shore Plaza - Braintree, Massachusetts
65. Los Cerritos Center Mall - Cerritos, California
66. Seminole Towne Center Mall - Sanford, Florida
67. Providence Place Mall - Rhode Island
68. Freehold Raceway Mall - New Jersey
69. Ala Moana Center Mall - Honolulu, Hawaii
70. Lakeline Mall - Cedar Park, Texas
71. Fayette Mall - Lexington, Kentucky
72. King of Prussia Mall - Pennsylvania
73. Woodfield Mall - Schaumburg, Illinois
74. Walt Whitman Mall - Huntington Station, New York
75. Staten Island Mall - New York
76. International Plaza Mall - Tampa, Florida
77. Fashion Island Mall - Newport Beach, California
78. Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall - Arizona
79. Mall of Louisiana - Baton Rouge, Louisiana
80. Broadway Mall - Hicksville, New York
81. Tacoma Mall - Washington
82. Ridgedale Center Mall - Minnetonka, Minnesota
83. Victoria Gardens Mall - California
84. Augusta Mall - Georgia
85. Cielo Vista Mall - El Paso, Texas
86. NorthTown Mall - Blaine, Minnesota
87. Glendale Galleria Mall - California
88. Arizona Mills Outlet Mall - Tempe, Arizona
89. Montgomery Mall - North Wales, Pennsylvania
90. Lynnhaven Mall - Virginia Beach, Virginia
91. Highland Mall - Austin, Texas
92. Ingram Park Mall - San Antonio, Texas
93. The Tucson Mall - Arizona
94. Hamilton Place Mall - Chattanooga, Tennessee
95. Fair Oaks Mall - Fairfax, Virginia
96. Westfield Valley Fair Mall - Santa Clara, California
97. Battlefield Mall - Springfield, Missouri
98. Orland Square Mall - Orland Park, Illinois
99. Forum At Olympia Parkway - Selma, Texas
100. Baybrook Mall - Friendswood, Texas
101. University Mall - Tampa, Florida
102. Park Place Mall - Tucson, Arizona
103. Citadel Mall - Charleston, South Carolina
104. WestGate Mall - Spartanburg, South Carolina
105. Tanger Outlet Center - Park City, Utah
106. Southland Mall - Miami, Florida
107. Christiana Mall - Newark, Delaware
108. Springfield Mall - Virginia
109. Dulles Town Center Mall - Virginia
110. Deptford Mall - New Jersey
111. Stanford Shopping Center Mall - Palo Alto, California
112. South Hills Village - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
113. Valley View Mall - Roanoke, Virginia
114. Regency Mall - Racine, Wisconsin
115. Jefferson Mall - Louisville, Kentucky
116. Westfield Topanga Mall - Canoga Park, California
117. Orlando Premium Outlet Mall - Florida
118. Altamonte Mall - Altamonte Springs, Florida
119. Short Pump Town Center Mall - Richmond, Virginia
120. Wrentham Village Premium Outlets - Massachusetts
121. Mall of America - Bloomington, Minnesota
122. Southland Mall - Hayward, California
123. Discover Mills Outlet Mall - Lawrenceville, Georgia
124. The Mall at Robinson - Pennsylvania
125. SuperMall - Auburn, Washington
126. Cumberland Mall - Atlanta, Georgia
127. The Woodlands Mall - Houston, Texas
128. Zion Factory Stores, The Promenade at Red Cliff - St. George, Utah
129. Barton Creek Square Mall - Austin, Texas
130. North Point Mall - Alpharetta, Georgia
131. Perimeter Mall - Atlanta, Georgia
132. Mall of Georgia - Buford, Georgia
133. Golf Mill Mall - Niles, Illinois
134. Fashion Square Mall - Saginaw, Michigan
135. Eastview Mall - Victor, New York

Planning my friend’s trip to St. Louis, while I should be doing my OWN work!

I have a very busy friend who’s going on a business trip to Missouri and is bringing her 2 kids and their au pair who will have a car and liberty to take the kids all over the St. Louis area entertaining, which their mom is working. Since she knows I spend all day online reading and writing, she asked me to come with a list of activities for her family to partake in during their little vacation. And it is true, I enjoy nothing more than planning trips. Anyways, here are my findings, read the reviews, looked at pictures, and they all check out—thought I’d share...

1. The Butterfly House
2. Grant’s Farm
3. Missouri Botanical Gardens
4. Saint Louis Zoo
5. Jamestown Mall

They’ll only be there for 3 days, so I think this should be plenty.

Shopping Malls – a Traffic report that amazed our Web Analyst

Our Web analyst has released his monthly report last week covering the various page categories of our site, and the traffic channels in general that played a major role on our site's December traffic. In our Shopping Malls / Outlet Malls category, we’ve expected to see some spike of traffic around Christmas but we've never thought it could be that high. The amazing thing about it is the fact that the traffic for this category does not decay, and his January predictions are even slightly higher.

BTW, the bad news here (according to his study), is that visitors to these pages are more likely to leave our site – if you have any ideas on the causes for such behavior, please share them with us.

They asked me not to expose our actual numbers, but I couldn’t resist exposing the highlight shopping mall page among the few hundreds that we currently cover – it was viewed 845 times during the month of December. It’s the first on my following list that is ordered by TripCart’s popularity ranking report.

1. Smithhaven Mall - Lake Grove, New York
2. Willowbrook Mall - Wayne, New Jersey
3. Roosevelt Field Mall - Long Island, New York
4. Broward Mall - Plantation, Florida
5. Gravois Bluffs Plaza - Fenton, Missouri
6. Fayette Mall - Lexington, Kentucky
7. Colonial Bell Air Mall - Mobile, Alabama
8. Southridge Mall - Greendale, Wisconsin
9. Memorial City Mall - Houston, Texas
10. Sunrise Mall - Long Island, New York
11. Westfield South Shore Mall - Bayshore, New York
12. Ala Moana Center Mall - Honolulu, Hawaii
13. Lenox Square Mall - Atlanta, Georgia
14. Walt Whitman Mall - Huntington Station, New York
15. Clackamas Town Center Mall - Portland, Oregon
16. Tysons Corner Center Mall - Virginia
17. St. Louis Mills Outlet Mall - Hazelwood, Missouri
18. Citadel Mall - Charleston, South Carolina
19. Walden Galleria - Buffalo, New York
20. Deerbrook Mall - Humble, Texas
21. Sawgrass Mills Outlet Mall - Sunrise, Florida
22. Baybrook Mall - Friendswood, Texas
23. The Designer Outlet Gallery - Secaucus, New Jersey
24. Augusta Mall - Georgia
25. Pearlridge Shopping Center - Aiea, Hawaii
26. Montgomery Mall - North Wales, Pennsylvania
27. Palisades Center Mall - New York
28. Natick Mall - Massachusetts
29. Green Acres Mall - Valley Stream, New York
30. Regency Mall - Racine, Wisconsin
31. Broadway Mall - Hicksville, New York
32. Massaponax Factory Outlet Stores - Fredericksburg, Virginia
33. Prime Outlets Mall - Orlando, Florida
34. Lloyd Center Mall - Portland, Oregon
35. Gurnee Mills Outlet Mall - Illinois
36. The Galleria Mall - Houston, Texas
37. Staten Island Mall - New York
38. Ontario Mills Outlet Mall - California
39. Mayfair Mall - Wisconsin
40. Discover Mills Outlet Mall - Lawrenceville, Georgia
41. Lynnhaven Mall - Virginia Beach, Virginia
42. Dolphin Outlet Mall - Miami, Florida
43. Mall of Louisiana - Baton Rouge, Louisiana
44. Ridgedale Center Mall - Minnetonka, Minnesota
45. The Woodlands Mall - Houston, Texas
46. Cabazon Outlet Mall - California
47. Aventura Mall - Miami, Florida
48. Washington Square Mall - Portland, Oregon
49. Oxford Valley Mall - Langhorne, Pennsylvania
50. Glendale Galleria Mall - California
51. Katy Mills Outlet Mall - Texas
52. University Mall - Tampa, Florida
53. Jefferson Mall - Louisville, Kentucky
54. Freehold Raceway Mall - New Jersey
55. Southland Mall - Miami, Florida
56. Lakeline Mall - Cedar Park, Texas
57. Dulles Town Center Mall - Virginia
58. Alderwood Mall - Lynnwood, Washington
59. Tacoma Mall - Washington
60. Deptford Mall - New Jersey
61. The Florida Mall - Orlando, Florida
62. The Mall at Stonecrest - Lithonia, Georgia
63. Highland Mall - Austin, Texas
64. Franklin Mills Outlet Mall - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
65. Woodfield Mall - Schaumburg, Illinois
66. Mall of America - Bloomington, Minnesota
67. Burlington Center Mall - Massachusetts
68. The Tucson Mall - Arizona
69. Monmouth Mall - Eatontown, New Jersey
70. Ross Park Mall - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
71. Brea Mall - California
72. Dadeland Mall - Miami, Florida
73. Opry Mills Outlet Mall - Nashville, Tennessee
74. Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall - Arizona
75. Christiana Mall - Newark, Delaware
76. West Town Mall - Knoxville, Tennessee
77. Willowbrook Mall - Houston, Texas
78. Stanford Shopping Center Mall - Palo Alto, California
79. Fair Oaks Mall - Fairfax, Virginia
80. Del Amo Mall Fashion Center - Torrance, California
81. Perimeter Mall - Atlanta, Georgia
82. Mall at Millenia - Orlando, Florida
83. Fashion Valley Mall - San Diego, California
84. Cumberland Mall - Atlanta, Georgia
85. Stoneridge Mall - Pleasanton, California
86. Hamilton Place Mall - Chattanooga, Tennessee
87. Springfield Mall - Virginia
88. Mall of Georgia - Buford, Georgia
89. Fashion Island Mall - Newport Beach, California
90. Valley View Mall - Roanoke, Virginia
91. South Coast Plaza Mall - Costa Mesa, California
92. Park Place Mall - Tucson, Arizona
93. Bellevue Square Mall - Washington
94. Southland Mall - Hayward, California
95. Victoria Gardens Mall - California
96. Arundel Mills Mall - Hanover, Maryland
97. North Point Mall - Alpharetta, Georgia
98. Colorado Mills Outlet Mall - Lakewood, Colorado
99. Woodbury Common Premium Outlets Mall - New York
100. Solomon Pond Mall - Marlborough, Massachusetts
101. South Shore Plaza - Braintree, Massachusetts
102. The Avenues Mall - Jacksonville, Florida
103. Westfield Valley Fair Mall - Santa Clara, California
104. Arizona Mills Outlet Mall - Tempe, Arizona
105. King of Prussia Mall - Pennsylvania
106. Altamonte Mall - Altamonte Springs, Florida
107. Potomac Mills Outlet Mall - Prince William, Virginia
108. Providence Place Mall - Rhode Island
109. NorthTown Mall - Blaine, Minnesota
110. Park City Center Mall - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
111. Cherry Creek Mall - Denver, Colorado
112. WestGate Mall - Spartanburg, South Carolina
113. Northgate Mall - Seattle, Washington
114. The Citadel - Colorado Springs, Colorado
115. The Mall at Robinson - Pennsylvania
116. Oakbrook Mall - Oak Brook, Illinois
117. Zion Factory Stores, The Promenade at Red Cliff - St. George, Utah
118. International Plaza Mall - Tampa, Florida
119. Westfield Santa Anita Mall - Arcadia, California
120. Los Cerritos Center Mall - Cerritos, California
121. White Marsh Mall - Baltimore, Maryland

New Street Furniture in New York

The Big Apple just dropped the big sum of a billion bucks for 3500 bus stations, 330 news stands (shown in the picture above), and 20 public toilets that will soon be popping up all over the city.  The new street candy was designed by Nicholas Grimshaw Architects and is composed of 95% recyclable materials.  We like the look (TreeHugger has shots of the other installations) but we would have preferred something that looked a little more old school.

(thanks treehugger )

Valentine Vacation Getaways

It's almost time for Valentine's Day again.  Coastal Living has come up with their top 10 list of the best places to take your loved one in the middle of February.  Not surprisingly, all of their destinations involve water in one form or another. Here's their take on where to go with your sweetheart next week-

1. Naples, Florida - white sand, warm water, and a sophisticated art scene
2. New York, New York - more romantic cliches than you can shake a stick at
3. Barbados - classic Caribbean paradise featuring the best of English culture
4. Sausalito, California - a little eccentric city full of cafes and art galleries
5. Niagara Falls, Ontario - classic beauty covered in ice
6. Fairhope, Alabama - off the beaten path but full of art and antiques on Mobile Bay
7. Cannon Beach, Oregon - rugged mountains, 9 miles of beach, and more art
8. St. Michaels, Maryland - lots of history and less tourists than in the summertime
9. La Jolla, California - this "jewel" is great for surfing, sand and shopping
10. Outer Banks, North Carolina - an easy place to find your own secluded beach

Related posts: Run Your Pants Off in New York City • Cultural Overload in San Francisco • Top 10 Cities For One Night Stands (and Singles)

Related travel guides: Romantic Vacation Getaways in Orlando, Tampa and Central Florida • Romantic Vacation Getaways in Las Vegas, Lake Mead and the Nevada desert • Romantic Vacations in Los Angeles, Southern California • Romantic San Francisco, California • Romantic Manhattan - NYC

Recommended Highlights in the region: Sunrise Mall - Long Island, New York • Sierra at Tahoe Ski Resort - Twin  Bridges, California • South Coast Plaza Mall - Costa Mesa, California • Whiteface Ski Resort - Wilmington, New York • Ontario Mills Outlet Mall - California • Southland Mall - Hayward, California • Vail Ski Resort - Colorado

Shopping Madness in South Florida

Holiday shopping was a bit more adventurous than normal last week at the Altamonte Springs mall near Orlando. It might be safer to get your presents from one of the one-story outlet malls that litter the interstates throughout Florida-

Security camera video captured a 19-year-old man crashing his car through a mall entrance, down a hallway and into a perfume kiosk. But the driver wasn't done, he then headed toward an escalator. The car clipped the railing of the escalator then dropped down one level before landing on its side. None of the workers inside the mall were injured but it only took seconds for them to emerge from stores and hallways to the scene of the crashed car. The driver was admitted to a hospital for treatment of his injuries and for psychiatric evaluation. He told police responding to the scene that he was trying to commit suicide.

(thanks arbroath )

Related posts: Shopping Malls – a Traffic report that amazed our Web Analyst • Tigger Takes it Out on Teen at Disney Orlando

Related travel guides: Shopping in Central-Florida • Places-to-Visit in Central-Florida

Recommended Highlights in the region: University Mall - Tampa, Florida • International Plaza Mall - Tampa, Florida • The Florida Mall - Orlando, Florida

Picture of the Day (12/03/06) - From TripCart

"A cargo container that apparently fell from a ship washed up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Thursday and spilled thousands of bags of Doritos brand tortilla chips on the beach. People collected the chips, which were apparently still fresh due to their airtight packaging. It was unknown which ship had lost the cargo or to what port it was bound."

A few more pictures.

Picture of the Day (10/28/06) - From TripCart

Anyone care to guess what the story behind this sign is?

(thanks Amagill via Say No to Crack )

Picture of the Day (10/20/06) - From TripCart

This is a great way to alienate your customers, definitely something you could only get away with in a blue state. From the streets of NYC.

(thanks .bastian)