Ebates, a site that many bigname brands offer rebates and coupons through, released its online retail report for August, finding that online sales through the site grew 57 during the month, compared to the same time period a year ago.

The categories that showed the biggest growth were department stores, baby kids, books magazines, apparel shoes, and health beauty. In fact, only one category covered by Ebates showed decline home dcor.According to the report, overall sales grew, although average order sizes shrank among a number of categories, like business office supplies, department stores, and computers electronics. Ebates attributes this to store discounting and smaller individual order sizes.