Media Alert: Traffic to Campaign Sites Skyrockets on Election Eve

RESTON, Va., Nov. 2, 2004 – Comscore Networks today released an overnight analysis of Web visitation related to today’s election. The analysis found that both Senator Kerry and President Bush’s campaign web sites saw dramatic traffic increases yesterday (Monday, November 1).

Comscore findings included:

• JohnKerry.com and GeorgeWBush.com each drew more than 300,000 U.S. visitors on November 1, 2004. This represents an increase of more than 100 percent compared to each of the sites’ average visitation levels. GeorgeWBush.com led JohnKerry.com by just over 3 percent yesterday.

• Visitation among workplace users accounted for more than half of the traffic to both of the campaign sites. Approximately 160,000 at-work Internet users visited JohnKerry.com yesterday. This represents an increase of 154 percent versus the average of the previous four Mondays and approximately 52 percent of total visitors to the site yesterday. Similarly, 189,000 at-work users visited GeorgeWBush.com, representing an increase of 160 percent and about 60 percent of total visitors yesterday.
• Overall, the campaign sites have been as closely matched as the candidates have been in the polls. After leading in the July and August ratings, JohnKerry.com lost the lead to GeorgeWBush.com in September. Weekly rankings have shown Senator Kerry’s site in the lead for the last three weeks.

For a full analysis, including daily, monthly and weekly trends, or to speak with a Comscore analyst, please send an email to press@comscore.com.

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Bill Daddi
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