Today,
Hitwise announced that Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s website, www.fred08.com, was the most visited website among all presidential candidates for the week ending September 8, 2007. Fred08.com received 34 percent of US visits amongst all the presidential candidate websites for that week.
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Top Visited Presidential Candidate Websites
Weekly US Market Share of Visits |
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Weekly rankings for the week ending 09/08/2007 |
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Rank |
Candidate |
Domain |
Market Share % |
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1 |
Fred Thompson |
www.fred08.com |
34.73% |
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2 |
Barack Obama |
www.barackobama.com |
13.49% |
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3 |
Ron Paul |
www.ronpaul2008.com |
12.88% |
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4 |
Hillary Clinton |
www.hillaryclinton.com |
10.38% |
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5 |
John Edwards |
www.johnedwards.com |
6.52% |
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Note - the Hitwise data is based on a custom category of websites for only those presidential candidates that have officially announced their candidacy ranked by US market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. Hitwise ranks more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context. For the full list of candidates please visit: http://www.hitwise.com/political-data-center/key-candidates.php |
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Source: Hitwise |
Barack Obama’s website, www.barackobama.com, received 13.49 percent of US visits for last week, the second most visits among all candidates. Following Obama’s website was Republican candidate Ron Paul‘s website www.ronpaul2008.com, which received 12.88 percent of visits.
Visitors to Fred Thompson’s site were primarily Male (65.56 percent) and older (40.28 percent being 55 or older) during the four weeks ending September 8, 2007. Of all traffic to Fred08.com, 10.86 percent of it came from Tennesseeonline users.
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Candidates Receiving the Most Traffic From Select Web 2.0 Websites (YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and Flickr) for August 2007 |
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Rank |
Website |
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1 |
www.ronpaul2008.com |
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2 |
www.barackobama.com |
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3 |
www.hillaryclinton.com |
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4 |
www.mikehuckabee.com |
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5 |
www.gravel2008.us |
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6 |
www.mittromney.com |
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7 |
www.brownback.com |
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8 |
www.dennis4president.com |
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9 |
www.richardsonforpresident.com |
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10 |
www.joinrudy2008.com |
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11 |
www.johnmccain.com |
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12 |
www.johnedwards.com |
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13 |
www.fred08.com |
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14 |
www.chrisdodd.com |
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15 |
www.joebiden.com |
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16 |
www.gohunter08.com |
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Note - the data featured lists the percentage of downstream traffic to the candidate websites from a custom category of Web 2.0 websites that includes MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube. |
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Source: Hitwise |
Web 2.0 Election
The traffic from select Web 2.0 websites including MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr, increased 205 percent to all the candidate websites in August 2007 compared to January 2007. Republican Ron Paul received the most traffic from Web 2.0 websites followed by Democrat candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
"The online focus of the last presidential election was all about blogs and their effectiveness in communicating with potential voters," said Bill Tancer, general manager of global research at Hitwise. "In the 2008 Presidential election, the Internet's role is changing from a one way communication channel to a two-way conversation enabled by social networking."
Other stats on presidential candidate’s websites can be found on the Hitwise Election 2008 data, located at: http://www.hitwise.com/political-data-center.
