Hitwise claims Barack Obama’s website was the most visited website among all presidential candidates for the week ending February 2, 2008. Barackobama.com received 36% of U.S. visits amongst presidential candidate websites for last week and increased 20% compared to the previous week. Hillaryclinton.com was the second most visited candidate website for last week receiving 16.4% of traffic among all candidate websites followed by RonPaul2008.com with 15%. Following Paul, was MikeHuckabee.com with 12.7%. John McCain’s website, JohnMccain.com, received the largest increase of traffic for the week with a 32% gain.
Rank | Name | Domain | Market Share, Week Ending 02/02/2008 | Market Share, Week Ending 01/26/2008 | Week-on-Week Change |
1 | Barack Obama | www.barackobama.com | 36.26% | 30.16% | 20% |
2 | Hillary Clinton | www.hillaryclinton.com | 16.47% | 14.43% | 14% |
3 | Ron Paul | www.ronpaul2008.com | 15.20% | 23.84% | -36% |
4 | Mike Huckabee | www.mikehuckabee.com | 12.70% | 15.71% | -19% |
5 | Mitt Romney | www.mittromney.com | 9.55% | 8.25% | 16% |
6 | John McCain | www.johnmccain.com | 9.26% | 7.01% | 32% |
7 | Mike Gravel | www.gravel2008.us | 0.56% | 0.61% | -8% |
Source: Hitwise |