RonPaul2008.com Web Traffic at All Time High

[jj111]

RonPaul2008.com Web Traffic at All Time High

Figures updated as of two days ago, Thursday, from Alexa, show that traffic at www.RonPaul2008.com has reached an all time high.

Traffic rank is at an all time high of 10,226 (the lower the number the better)
Reach is also at an all time high of 0.017% (percent of global users who visit the site).

Ron Paul's website traffic continues to trounce all GOP competitors by a landslide.

In second place among GOP's as of two days ago, was ImWithFred.com, which had traffic rank at 37,779 and reach of 0.0055%.

Huckabee continues to bite the dust with horrible statistics of a traffic rank of 81,563 and reach of 0.002%.

Figures and trends can be seen here:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=ronpaul2008.com&site1=imwithfred.com&site2=mittromney.com&site3=hillaryclinton.com&site4=barackobama.com&y=r&z=3&h=400&w=700&range=7d&size=Large&url=ronpaul2008.com

Ron Paul's website traffic continues to also trounce all Democratic competitors by a landslide.

BarackObama.com, in second place, significantly trails behind Ron's lead, with a rank of only 20,113 and reach of only 0.007%.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=ronpaul2008.com&site1=imwithfred.com&site2=mittromney.com&site3=hillaryclinton.com&site4=barackobama.com&y=r&z=3&h=400&w=700&range=7d&size=Large&url=ronpaul2008.com

Ron Paul's web traffic has outperformed that of all other Presidential candidates on a consistent basis, every single day, over the last month, and with only a few exceptions, every day over the last 3 months.

Please visit www.RonPaul2008.com daily for updates and to be a part of the traffic.

[CasualApathy]

Now we need to get all these people to Donate

[Alabama Supporter]

Didn't we think the same thing in July? After reading the Washington Times story, I'm not sure that he is getting as many "unique" hits as we thought.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070907/NATION/109070094/1028/ELECTION



Leading the Republican pack is newly announced candidate former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, who gave his reasons for running in a 13-minute Web video. He had 381,000 visits to his original site, ImWithFred.com, which now forwards traffic to Fred08.com.

Mr. Thompson, best known for his role on NBC's "Law & Order" series, used the Internet this spring to reach a wide audience. He taped a snarky Web video responding to Michael Moore as the two "sparred" over the Internet on Cuba policy.

Republican Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor, had 124,000 unique visitors to JoinRudy2008.com in July, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (MittRomney.com) with 116,000 and Rep. Ron Paul (RonPaul2008.com) of Texas with 113,000.

[LibertyEagle]

Well, they used... "according to Nielsen//NetRatings, which tracks such data."

[Alabama Supporter]

Well, they used... "according to Nielsen//NetRatings, which tracks such data."

Is Nielsen accurate?

[Brasil Branco]

I don't buy it... http://www.quantcast.com/ronpaul2008.com says different. According, Ron has more unique hits than Mitt and co.

[quickmike]

Is Nielsen accurate?

Oh, you mean Nielsen, the old media gatekeeper? The one who has an interest in downplaying anyone that might bypass the MSM and favor using the internet instead of the media they get their lobbying power from? That Nielsen? :D

[jj111]

All the reports I've seen show Ron is most popular on the net. The old media is lying or mistaken. Check out Google Trends:

Google Search Trends Ron Paul vs. Top Contenders in Both Parties 2007 August Only
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22Ron+Paul%22%2C+%22Romney%22%2C%22Fred+ Thompson%22%2C+%22Hillary%22%2C+%22Obama%22&ctab=0&geo=US&geor=all&date=2007-8&sort=0

Google Search Trends Ron Paul vs. Top Contenders in Both Parties 2007 All Year
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22Ron+Paul%22%2C+%22Romney%22%2C%22Fred+ Thompson%22%2C+%22Hillary%22%2C+%22Obama%22&ctab=0&geo=US&geor=all&date=2007&sort=0


Google Search Trends Compared to Other GOP 2007 August Only
http://google.com/trends?q=%22ron+paul%22%2C+%22fred+thompson%22%2C+ giuliani%2C+romney%2C+%22huckabee%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2007-8&sort=0

Google Search Trends Compared to Other GOP 2007 All Year
http://google.com/trends?q=%22ron+paul%22%2C+%22fred+thompson%22%2C+ giuliani%2C+romney%2C+huckabee&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2007&sort=0

[Alabama Supporter]

How do professionals track web traffic? Alexa or Nielsen?

[Michael Ingram]

Nielsen

[quickmike]

If Nielsen had its way, we would all be watching the Olsen twins on Full House for the next 30 years.

I wouldnt buy anything they said, even if it was good.

[rockfree33]

How do professionals track web traffic? Alexa or Nielsen?

I know for Alexa you have to install their tool bar to make your visit count towards a website. Most people don't install it because its essentially spyware.

[stevedasbach]

The imwithfred.com website is his old one. The new one is fred08.com, which actually beat ronpaul2008.com on the 6th.

[james1844]

The general consensus seems to be that Ron Paul is doing better on-line. This corresponds with other evidence we've seen such as meet up groups and the on-line infrastructure that springing up around the campaign.

[misconstrued]

I made this post on another thread:

Website Traffic: Ron Paul vs. Fred Thompson vs. Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton
http://snipurl.com/1qgmq

Ron Paul has been leading everyone the last month except for Fred Thompson whose numbers are high now because he just officially kicked off his site/campaign. They will fall...

Also it's worth noting that the huge spike in traffic Ron Paul received in May after the debate will be almost impossible to match because going from a rank of about 100,000 to a rank of around 30,000 is quite easy, but then it starts getting a lot more competitive and more difficult to spike in the higher levels. That said Ron Paul's current ranking is 10,226! That's phenomenal and a HUGE spike in traffic since the last debate.

Also, Ron Paul's site is fairly bare bones. It's really just a few pages with links to other sites. Even the official news/blog is hosted elsewhere on a 3rd party site. Whereas the other candidates keep everything they can on their domains (e.g. News Archives, Forums, etc). This will only further inflate their traffic ranking.

[Alabama Supporter]

I agree that RP rules the internet for the GOP, but I am disturbed by the Washington Times piece though.

They site the July Nielsen ratilngs, and they are not clear what month they pulled the F. Thompson stats.. Does anyone have access to the August Nielsen ratings so we can fact check this story? Something seems fishy, and it seems it would be pretty easy to verify.

[jpa]

alexa is junk, use hitwise, compete.com or quantcast.com

Also google trends is a good predictor of traffic.

Nielsen is way off with its 4x visitors estimate. The 2 sites were pretty close, I wouldn't doubt if fred had more in July/August with all the press he is getting.. but no way its 4x the visitors.

[jpa]

I agree that RP rules the internet for the GOP, but I am disturbed by the Washington Times piece though.

They site the July Nielsen ratilngs, and they are not clear what month they pulled the F. Thompson stats.. Does anyone have access to the August Nielsen ratings so we can fact check this story? Something seems fishy, and it seems it would be pretty easy to verify.

Nielsen put out a press release for the July data. You would have to have a subscribtion or purchase the data for August.

[paulitics]

If Ron Paul has less web page views, than how does he have 3.6 million youtube views? Why is he the most searched political candidate, why is he always on the front page of digg? No, the data form website trackers like Alexa, completely coincide with all other data.