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According to Hitwise UK visits to the official National Lottery site shot up this Saturday after systems failures at Camelot caused a halt in shop sales of lottery tickets. Although internet sales were also down on Saturday visits to the National Lottery site doubled compared to Saturday 20th as people flocked to the site. Interestingly the average time spent on the site went up to 7.25 minutes for the week ending the 27th December compared to an average time of 4.02 minutes in the previous week.

Posted at 03:50 PM
In Categories Gambling
Recent research from Hitwise UK shows that since the last Euromillions win on the 18th July visits to the official national lottery website have increased by 46%. August saw rapid increase in visits as the jackpot continued to rollover 5 times, reaching £92 million on the 6th September, making this the largest Euromillions rollover of the year.

Posted at 04:19 PM
In Categories Gambling
According to Hitwise UK, Internet visits to the Grand National website doubled in comparison to visits to the site in 2007. Searches for 'grand national' also increased this year and 70% of search traffic to the Grand National website was from this term. Visits to the Gambling - Sports Betting category also saw an increase during the Grand National weekend, up by 18% from April last year.
Posted at 02:36 PM
In Categories Gambling | Sports
According to Hitwise UK visits to the Euromillions website on Saturday 8th February were the highest ever for this weekends must-win draw. Searches for "euromillions" were 59% higher last week by comparison to the last 'must-be-won' draw that took place on the 28th September 2007.
Posted at 04:52 PM
In Categories Gambling