2008/11/11 Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com:
Okay, here's some notes - I posted them to the wiki rather than here in order not to dump a huge load of text on the list. Also, there's a graph!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shimgray/Election_statistics
I've updated this to include redirects, which was pretty educational - a lot of traffic comes through them, as high as 20%.
During October, 5% of *all* readers looking at the Obama page were doing so using a redirect which had a misspelled version of his name. Given that virtually all of our internal links have the correct name, this implies a much higher proportion of those who searched for it will have ended up on these pages... so what proportion of our visitors simply can't spell it? I wonder if anyone asked that question in one of the tens of thousands of polls over the past few months :-)