eBay's traffic in Sept. was up 9 percent from a year earlier, and that was good enough to make the online auction site the most-visited of the top 10 online shopping sites for the month.

eBay's traffic for Sept. was 57.6 million visits, up 9 percent from 52.9 million a year earlier, according to Internet Retailer, which cites figures from Nelson/NetRatings. eBay led all online shopping sites for the month.

The rest of the top 10 consisted of Amazon.com, which ranked second with 41.9 million visits, up 18 percent from 35.5 million; followed by Target Corp., 19.9 million, up 25 percent from 15.9 million; Wal-Mart Stores, 19 million, up 22 percent from 15.6 million; Shopping.com Network, 17.2 million, up 16 percent from 14.8 million; Shopzilla.com Network, 17.2 million, up 15 percent from 15 million; Dell Inc., 15.9 million, up 3 percent from 15.5 million; Expedia.com, 14.4 million, down 1 percent from 14.5 million; NexTag Network, 12.5 million, up 30 percent from 9.6 million; and Ticketmaster, 11.4 million, up 3 percent from 11.1 million.