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Nielsen ratings - Average time per visitor

Peter Erickson — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:45:03 -0400

The Nielsen ratings also posted the average time per visitor for each website. I thought it was really striking that the Clinton website led the Democratic field with 8:17, especially since Edwards has a roughly equivalent number of unique visitors. His visitors seem to spend a lot less time on the website, only 3:13, an indication that they're probably not blogging there or reading too much content --- even though I actually think the Edwards web design is much more savy and creative.

Is it that people are using the Clinton website a lot more for finding content and news about the campaign through hillaryhub.com? Is that the success story? Do these ratings say something maybe about how different web design strategies are working? Clinton supporters are getting their news in a Clinton-controlled environment, whereas Edwards supporters are maybe getting their news from elsewhere in the blogosphere? Or am I reading too much into this?

(Obama had an average time of 7:51 per visitor, interesting in itself that he was able to sustain such a high amount of time per visit even with a number of unique visitors nearly double Clinton's.)

More thoughts here in a MyDD diary .

No condescension intended

Joshua Levy — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:37:34 -0400

Mark - I used the word "anonymous" to refer to the swiftness with which supporters flock to online polls, submit stories to digg, etc., as if they were a single, unified group taking orders (which I don't think is the case). To outside observers, this behavior is a little mysterious.

I have no issues at all with Paul supporters, though it's amazing how thin-skinned they can be...

Ron Paul

marksstc — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:11:50 -0400

I detect a note of snide condescension in "the Ron Paul machine -- the anonymous collection of online activists..."

1. Is there something wrong with posting comments anonymously or under a screen name? Seems like the vast majority of comments for all candidates -- not just Ron Paul -- are thus submitted. Yet I don't see any other candidate's supporters being described this way.

2. Many Ron Paul supporters are not anonymous. In fact, if you'd like to learn their names, go to the rosters of his nearly 400 Meetup groups that have about 16,000 members. Some people hide their real names on Meetup, of course, but it apparently Ron Paul's supporters are proud to publicly make their allegiance known.

3. We are more than online activists. Again, check Meetup.com and you'll see the Ron Paul groups have hundreds upon hundreds of events happening all over the country. You will see a show of force for Ron Paul this Saturday in Des Moines.

Mark Smith

Nice tool

David All — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:01:08 -0500

Another great metrics tool to add to my toolbox. Nice work Micah and David.
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