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Traffic to Obama's White House Web Site Has Plummeted
CNS News.com ^ | July 28, 2009 | By Matt Cover

Posted on 07/28/2009 2:18:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

(CNSNews.com) – The traffic at President Obama's official White House Web site--whitehouse.gov--has fallen from a post-Inauguration peak to nearly the same level it was during the waning days of the Bush administration.

The dramatic drop in traffic has happened despite the Obama Administration's complete redesign of the site.

According to the web-traffic tracking site Alexa.com, whitehouse.gov was almost the 500th most popular Web site in the world in February. Since then, it has fallen to the 3,732 ranked Web site in the world. Traffic to the site has fallen 51.6 percent in the last three months.

People are also spending less time on the site than they did before. Time spent on a Web site is often used as a barometer for how interested visitors are in a site’s content. Time spent on whitehouse.gov declined 15 percent since May to an average of 2.6 minutes per visitor.

The decline in White House’s web traffic has coincided with a decline in the president’s approval ratings and the approval ratings for his policies.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhowhitehouse; failure; obamanomics; recession; socialism; third100days

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1 posted on 07/28/2009 2:18:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The dramatic drop in traffic has happened despite the Obama Administration’s complete redesign of the site.”

LOL!


2 posted on 07/28/2009 2:19:43 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They have a web site? Who knew! Who Cares!


3 posted on 07/28/2009 2:21:36 PM PDT by RDasher ("El Nino is climate, La Nina is weather")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wouldn’t want to get the cooties....er...cookies from THAT website....


4 posted on 07/28/2009 2:25:18 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Abort the Obama Presidency, now!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

White House vs Free Republic ranking.

We're ahead now.

5 posted on 07/28/2009 2:27:00 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Life, Liberty and the Department of Happiness)
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To: libertarian27

Even when people go to the White House site, they don't stay long.

6 posted on 07/28/2009 2:29:09 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Life, Liberty and the Department of Happiness)
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To: libertarian27
Even when people go to the White House site, they don't stay long.

Doesn't take much time to type and send a message that the O has his face on tv lying to us again. I can do that in a matter of seconds.

7 posted on 07/28/2009 2:32:01 PM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Part of it could be all those ObamaBots visiting the WH website have since lost their jobs and can’t afford the Internet service anymore.


8 posted on 07/28/2009 2:41:37 PM PDT by kromike
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To: libertarian27

bump #5


9 posted on 07/28/2009 2:43:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Visiting this website would be like visiting the website of Baghdad Bob if he had one. WHy would anyone go there?


10 posted on 07/28/2009 2:49:21 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Time spent on whitehouse.gov declined 15 percent since May to an average of 2.6 minutes per visitor.”

That long? I figure 52% of voters have an attention span no longer than a TV commercial.


11 posted on 07/28/2009 3:09:22 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (BLOAT - Buy lots of ammo today)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Make me website Czar I’ll get the statistics up..first week post his long form BC
second week his kindergarden records
third week Punahou records
fourth week Occidential
fifth week Columbia
sixth week Harvard
then his bar application
jobs
bank balance
social security numbers used


12 posted on 07/28/2009 3:21:26 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no more bailouts, the taxpayers are out of money!)
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To: rolling_stone

whoops I forgot
then his admission(s)
his trial
his punishment on video on the website (pay per view)
alternatively his pardon by Biden which would tear this country apart...(ala Nixon)


13 posted on 07/28/2009 3:23:47 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no more bailouts, the taxpayers are out of money!)
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To: libertarian27

Something is wrong with your graph unless I am reading it wrong...I spend hours on this site....:O) not minutes..Have to go here 3 times a day or it would take longer to catch up than a couple of hours to get through everything..


14 posted on 07/28/2009 3:56:14 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

OK, so that’s 3 hits times however many hours. Only 5000 hits a day? That seems low.


15 posted on 07/28/2009 4:50:47 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

Damn, I better get a life........


16 posted on 07/28/2009 4:58:20 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The site was beautiful with what Lynn Cheney had done. It had kids stuff, history stuff, Barney taking you on a virtual tour.

I don’t even want to go there now.

Another thing — Do you suppose this had anything to do with the rumor that trips to whitehouse.gov would be tracked vy Obortion Obama’s gestapos???

LOL!


17 posted on 07/28/2009 5:03:12 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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