It seems that Barack Obama’s website is quite popular, to say the least:
Twelve percent of Internet surfers who visit www.senate.gov click to the freshman senator’s homepage, according to rankings on Alexa.com, which tracks website traffic. Obama’s site gets more hits than any other senator’s, and, much like his popularity, those hits have increased over the last month.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who made her official presidential announcement last Saturday, pulls 7 percent of Internet surfers to her site from the main Senate page. Her numbers rose to current levels Monday after stagnating at 4 percent for the last month.
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Over the last week, Obama’s campaign site has been visited more often than Clinton’s. His site has an average ranking of 86,653 over the last three months, while Clinton’s three-month average is much lower, at 291,730.
And the Republicans?
Likely GOP presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is tied with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), pulling only 2 percent of senate.gov users to his site. The percentage of users he gets has also fallen over the last month.
McCain’s three-month ranking is […] at an average of 321,363.
Popi Bama, indeed.
There is a lot of hype surrounding Obama right now, so it is quite understandable that his website attracts a lot of visitors. Another explanation:
“I imagine that Obama might be at the top because while all four of them are mentioned as possible presidential candidates, the others are known by the public much better for various reasons,� said Andrew Busch, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College. “You would expect [Obama] to have the most traffic because he’s the one with the least amount of information on him.�
That is actually how I, for this moment at least, would explain it as well. He is the lesser known candidate, a media hype has been created, it is completely logical that many, many people visit his blog on a daily basis as to find out more about him / his views.
