In this thread, stellaloella shared some sites stats:

I asked around to the people who have access to the stats, and I was told:

* Our overall site traffic is up.
* The number of items listed keeps going up.
* We had a “banner sales day” yesterday.

I was also told that in terms of retail trends, October and May are the toughest months for the majority of businesses.

edit Nov 1 by JB
The STorque today reported some more detailed stats for October.
http://www.etsy.com/storque/section/etsyNews/article/etsy-statistics-weather-report-from-the-storque-newscast/541/

Registrations: Etsy had almost 40,000 new buyers register in October (does this number include new sellers registering too?)
Listings: 376,539 new items listed, which is an increase of 20% over the number of new items listed in September.
Page views: 162,907,375 page views in October, a 23% increase over September
Number of sales: sales of 218,455 items (20% increase over September)
Gross sales: “$2,966,160 worth of handmade goods sold for the month” (21% increase over September)

some dollar amounts:
376,539 new items listed x .20 cents= 75,307.80 for Etsy
$2,966,160 in gross sales x 3.5% = 103,815.60 for Etsy
total 179,123.40 for Etsy
(not counting showcase sales and I’m not sure if it’s counting renewals before an item expires within the “new listing” number)

edit Nov 2 by JB

They have now edited the article. The sales figure represented all sales, not just the sales of handmade items.

winenutnyc says:

Hi- The number is the total figure, so it does include vintage and supplies.
I’ll clarify it and update the story. Sorry for the confusion.

11/2/07 at 1:30p.m.

the new edited version says

All the new items and all of that traffic generated sales of 218,455 items (20% increase), representing $2,966,160 worth of goods sold for the month (21% increase)

they have removed the word handmade.
Thank you for the clarification, winenutnyc