According to Hitwise, 16% of hits on came from Google, after British viewers saw the comedian and satirist making his "shame on you, Mr Bush" speech when he collected the best documentary award for 'Bowling for Columbine'. The site captured nearly 8% of the market share, and figures show that 6.27% of visitors bookmarked the site.
While traffic to political sites has risen since the war began, visits to stocks and shares websites have fallen by 12% in the last week, and traffic to property websites is down by 4%.
The other political websites in the top five are The Guardian's politics website ; online polling site ; free online hosting of public petitions and campaigning community website
; and .
Hitwise supplies online information about the usage habits of more than 23m internet users worldwide. It is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, and has operations in the UK, the US, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong.
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