What do the Presidential Candidates use for Analytics?
Posted by Michael D Jensen on March 12th, 2007
I thought it would be interesting to look at all of the top presidential candidates and see what they are using for analytics for their site. I visited each site, viewed source, and looked for Javascript code or any other trace of analytics code I could find.
Hillary Clinton uses Google Analytics
John Edwards uses Google Analytics
Barack Obama uses Google Analytics
Rudy Giuliani uses Google Analytics
Mitt Romney uses Omniture
John McCain uses either Revenue Science (if they have some analytics system built-in) or it is a server-based (non-Javascript) analytics solution.
We use Google Analytics for SoloSEO but I have heard Omniture is a great solution too. Setting up with Omniture takes a little bit of work because you need to put in variables for each page (like page name), but other than that it is pretty easy and has lots of features.
I would suggest the candidates use Crazy Egg and track where people are clicking around on the site. We’ve discovered a lot of interesting behavior on our site, I can only imagine having that much more traffic and learning what you can do to maximize it.
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1. Hawaii SEO | March 13th, 2007 at 2:28 am
Hmmm… I wonder how they determine the ROI?
Do you think they tally the votes after the election and measure the cost per acquisition?
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Interesting post, see a followup on my blog
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