According to Hitwise, young adults are the fastest growing audience segment to the official government Web site for the Social Security Administration. The share of young adults age 18-24 to the site increased 104% when comparing the four weeks ending March 5, 2005 versus the same week in 2004. The 18-24 segment comprised only 5.3% of total visitors to a href=”http://www.ssa.gov”>www.ssa.gov, but now account for 10.7%. The second fastest growing segment to the Social Security Administration’s Web site is 25-34 year-olds. Their share of audience increased 59% vs the same week in 2004; they comprised 12.8% last year, but now comprise 20.4%.
| Top Web sites visited on search "social security reform" |
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| Rank | URL | Share |
| 1. | www.socialsecurityreform.org | 13.93% |
| 2. | www.whitehouse.gov | 12.30% |
| 3. | www.socialsecurity.org | 8.20% |
| 4. | www.sscommonsense.org | 5.74% |
| 5. | www.nasi.org | 4.92% |
| 6. | news.google.com | 4.10% |
| 7. | www.heritage.org | 3.28% |
| 8. | zfacts.com | 3.28% |
| 9. | money.cnn.com | 2.46% |
| 10. | www.americanprogress.org | 2.46% |
| Source: HitWise | ||