Thompson Leads The Race In Weekly Online Traffic: Hitwise

  • September 13, 2007
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson's Web site was the most visited of the presidential candidates for the week ending Sept. 8, reports Hitwise. Fred08.com received 34% of U.S. visits.

Rank Candidate Domain Market Share %
1 Fred Thompson
www.fred08.com 34.73%
2 Barack Obama
www.barackobama.com 13.49%
3 Ron Paul
www.ronpaul2008.com 12.88%
4 Hillary Clinton
www.hillaryclinton.com 10.38%
5 John Edwards
www.johnedwards.com 6.52%

Note - the Hitwise data is based on a custom category of Web sites for only those presidential candidates that have officially announced their candidacy ranked by U.S. market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Hitwise ranks more than 1 million unique Web sites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger Web sites. Hitwise categorizes Web sites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context.

Source: Hitwise

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