Traffic to Presidential candidate Web sites in January 2008

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