Most Visited Nigeria Websites for August 2010

Another interesting month just gone past; so many website saw their activities increase while some stayed stagnant, others reduced. Let’s dive into how things have change in the last 31days.

Nairaland.com remain in the number spot follow by punchng.com . nigerianbestforum.com moved 4 places to stay on the 3^rd spot while gtbank.com remain on the same spot as last month.

Taafoo.com break into the top ten for the first time as other veteran on the top ten list remain there except for ngrguadiannews.com.

We saw a record growth in educational sites on the top fifty-list as 3 (waecdirect.org, yabatech.edu.ng and laspotech.com) new tertiary institution websites join the league. Lasunigeria.com could not meet up with the top fifty but it showed a massive increase in growth, currently on 54^th spot.

In all we have about six website making the cut for the first time while just 2 sites came back to the list after dropping of in recent month.

View this month’s table here.

Top Ten

The Movers

• smslive247.com 50
• web4africa.net 36
• bbnsms.com 25
• nigeriamasterweb.com 16
• nigerianelitesforum.com 13

The Shakers

• mobilitynigeria.com 17
• naijapals.com 15
• careerenigeria.com 14
• smshulk.com 12
• independentngonline.com 12

Debutants

• ndlearecruitment.org
• waecdirect.org
• laspotech.com
• yabatech.edu.ng
• web4africa.net
• smslive247.com

Rebounds

• bbnsms.com
• nigeriamasterweb.com

Trends

There is education frenzy in the air, Waec result was recently released while the private WASSCE (GCE) is starting next week. Also quite a number of universities are conducting registration for new students and require that they do so online. This has helped increase the ranking of the sites.

In all, 50% of the top ten sites are news site, while others are forum and a social networking site with gtbank.com as the only corporate site making the list.

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Upcoming Tech Events in Nigeria, 3 this August

We have highlighted below, tech events that are coming up in Nigeria. Tick your calendar to attend any of these events, they surely will have impact on your professional career.

MobiFest 2010

It’s a two-day event targeted at mobile application development and innovations. The event will bring together thought-leaders in mobile technology industry. The event aligns with our continuous effort to seek and showcase development and innovation in the Nigerian technology space, hence our interest in supporting this event.

Theme: Reaching the M-Generation.

Date: August 17^th- 18^th 2010

Venue: Main Auditorium, University of Lagos.

Gate Fee: Registration required

DrupalCamp 2010

DrupalCamp to the folks in Nigeria is beyond just a gathering. DrupalCamp Lagos is geared towards use of open source tools & technology for the economic development of Nigeria.

Why DrupalCamp?

• To improve technology awareness.
• To help increase self employment opportunities.
• To improve IT skills through hands-on training & Dev contests among students, individuals, professionals & the entire society.
• To help our youths compete with the international community towards use of technology for economic development.
• To encourage collaboration among IT professionals including individuals & corporate organizations.

In this regard, we want to seek the indulgence of the general public, individuals, corporate organization & government parastatals for their participation, sponsorships, support and encouragement towards the success of this project.

Date: August 22^nd 2010

Venue: University of Lagos

Time: 3:30am – 3pm

Site: drupalnigeria.org

Gate Fee: Registration required

WordCamp 2010

What is Wordcamp?

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.

The Nigerian blogosphere is alive and if you want to learn more about wordpress while not tick the date on your calendar.

Date: August 28^th 2010

Venue: Finicky Restaurant (By Yabatech), Yaba Lagos.

Time: 4pm

Site: wordcampnigeria.org

Gate Fee: Registration required

The Renaissance

Digital Art designs seminar with Top Nigerian and foreign wave making designers. The seminar is surely going to be awesome. Imagine being tutored by world class and award designers… you can kickstart your career from this seminar;

Facilitators: Fabio Sasso FOUNDER OF Abduzeedo, Pete Harrison, Kern Saunders, Cretique Page, David Osagie, Daniel Emeka, Opabisi Oluwaseun, Dudutoonz and many more.

Date: 7-9^th October 2010

Fee: N10,000 for student and N20,000 standard

Contact: danizconcept@gmail.com

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President Goodluck Jonathan hits 100,000 fans on Facebook [updates]

We recently wrote about our President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan joining Facebook to engage Nigerian youth. He has consistently used the platform to communicate with fans on the page and it went from 2,ooo fans at our last writing to a whopping 100,000 today.

With just about 11 comments posted by the president, he got the following comments and likes;

That is an average of 1,946 comments and 2,117 likes on each comments. The post is driven mostly of praise singers but more aggressive people are joining the page and asking the president serious questions like the proposed 10billion for the Nigeria at 50 Anniversary and electoral reform.

Any impact so far?

On monday the president announced to  rescind his decision to suspend super eagles from international competition qouting some of the comments on the facebook page as the reason for taking the decision. Should we say the president is connecting perfectly with the people? Only time will tell!

During the time of writing this article… another 156 has joined the president’s page making it 100,156!

What is you view so far about the presidents Facebook presence?

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Top 20 Nigerian websites worth N.66 billion Naira

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage; so goes the saying! We believe that if we are able to quantify Nigerian websites and internet market as a whole, the better the possibilities of attracting investors. Our last year’s “Nigerian Internet Report” was eye-opening but this year, we have taken it a step further by checking more metrics that gave us sense of how much an internet company/website really worth.


We have outlined here 20 biggest Nigerian web properties for the half-year 2010. The full report will be available by before the end of July. The revelation we got from this makes me want to share with us what is going on in the Nigerian Internet market.

What makes a site worth millions of dollar or even Naira?

Well as it has been revealed by the top internet properties in the world; Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, eBay etc, the value of what they do and the network effect or number of people who are able to use their services (more than anything else) determines the worth of the companies.

The keywords there are;

1. Visitors to the site; How many people goes to this site daily, month or year?
2. Page views: How long do people stay on these sites? How many pages do they view on it?
3. What they sell: The biggest web property in the world is Google, what do they sell? Ads! To how many people? Millions! Through how many sites? Millions! This includes the visitors to their site and on their network sites. Same goes for Yahoo, Amazon and others.
4. Consistence: How are they able to sustain this number of visitors over a period of time? Do they grow over the years? Facebook is close to 500million active users now (those who come to the site at least once a month, I bet you go there many times a day)

To arrive at our selection, we have followed most of the sites we profiled for the past 18 months….yes… one and a half years!

So I present to you, a list of top Nigerian Web properties for half-year 2010.

*The calculations were enhanced by (Websiteoutlook.com) and our internal historical data of Nigerian websites. The worth may not be perfect but it gives us good sense of what they are like. The sites may be worth more than that using another metric or to the company in question.

We will include more sites to at least 60 sites in our full report. Expect it soon!

What does this mean?

It means that the Nigerian internet market is on the rise, we are still waiting for your own start-up. We expect to see more sites before the end of the year. These are just 20 sites and are worth more than 600 million Naira, wow!

Complete report will be out soon, what do you think?

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Most Visited Nigerian site in June 2010

The year just halved! What has happened thus far? Ok. In a separate report, we will detail key happenings in the web industry in the country, internet growth pattern and trends. But first off, let’s look at sites that have made leaps this recent month.

The top sites

I’m still looking for that site that will effectively take on Nairaland on the number one spot; if you have that brilliant idea and you “sure” it can challenge its dominance, bring it on!

Nairaland.com remains at the number one spot, while punchng.com is sitting tight on the second spot for 5 consecutive months now! Vanguardngr.com has regained the 3^rd spot after been overtaken by gtbank.com, thisdayonline.com and sunnewsonline.com. Moving up 1 spot and followed closely by gtbank.com which also moved 2 spots up.

Thisdayonline.com dropped 2 spots to stay on the 5^th spot while nigeriagalleria.com moved up two places to stay on the 6^th spot.

On the top ten, when you see sites going up in ranking definitely some should be losing out so is the case of 234next.com; it is the biggest casualty in the top ten cadre, losing 4 places.

This month we also have a new entrant to the top ten, unilag.edu.ng; it moved a whopping 15 places to stay on the ten spot displacing nigerianbestforum.com.

Top Ten drop outs

Nigerianbestforum.com  and ngrguardiannews.com are the two drop out from the top ten list this month. Taking a look at our historical ranking, no site has held the spot for 2 consecutive months in the last 6 months, it either move up or drop out.

The Movers

1. Taafoo.com  +42
2. careersnigeria.com  +39
3. jobcentrenigeria.com +29
4. hotnigerianjobs.com  +20
5. fourpointcl.com +19

The Shakers

1. iqrabooks.com.ng  -19
2. multilinks.com -13
3. zenithbank.com -13
4. naijaecash.com -12
5. completesportsnigeria.com  -9

The Drop outs

1. osundefender.org -37
2. unilorin.edu.ng  -31
3. Buyright.biz -31
4. smsbag.com -30
5. JambOnline.org  -29
6. huhuonline.com  -20
7. Bellanaija.com -22

The Debutants

1. txtoweb.com
2. fourpointcl.com
3. gamen11.com

Overall, we have couple of sites still making the top 50, this we believe is a sign of consistency. A very disturbing concern remains the fact that news sites still make up 60% of the top ten most visited Nigerian sites.

The performance of the super eagles in the ongoing world cup did tell on some sites (fansconnectonline.com and completesports.com) as the competition was very instrumental in their rise consequently it is also instrumental in their continuous downward trend.

Above all, an upbeat still remains in the Nigerian internet market… We are currently compiling the report for half year trends in Nigerian Internet Market our Web Trends Magazine will be out this week. Consumers are still hungry for that one site that will CHANGE the game… do you have that idea? Launch out!

Note: Our analysis on this page only review the top fifty Nigerian sites, to view the complete table (about top 100) click here.

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Most visited Nigerian Sites in May 2010

Another month just went by as we march right on to the mid year. In what has become our norm every month, let’s take you through top Nigerian sites for last month of May.

As usual, Nairaland.com remains on the top spot! In fact am looking for the Nigerian site that will displace Nairaland. It’s been consistent for the past 5 years. Punchng.com that was a contender last year, lost it due to its ill-informed strategy. After the decision was reverted, it has found very difficult to give Nairaland a fight! Punchng.com sits comfortably on the second spot. Thisdayonline.com also maintained the 3^rd spot while vanguardngr.com moved two places to the 4^th spot. 234next.com also moved 2 places to the 5^th spot while gtbank.com drop another 1 spot having drop 1 last month, dropping another this month is a sign something could be wrong, aren’t people orange friendly again? The biggest casualty on the top-ten is naijahotjobs.com which dropped 5 places and eventually dropped out of the top-ten. Nigeriagalleria.com, ngrguardiannews.com and nigerianbestforum.com are on the 8^th, 9^th, and 10^th spots respectively. Nigeriagalleria.com, made it to the top ten this month with a staggering, 3 places move to push naijahotjobs.com out of the top ten!

View this month’s table here.

Top Ten

1. nairaland.com
2. punchng.com
3. thisdayonline.com
4. vanguardngr.com
5. 234next.com
6. gtbank.com
7. sunnewsonline.com
8. nigeriagalleria.com
9. ngrguardiannews.com
10. nigerianbestforum.com

The Movers

• fansconnectonline.com  +61
• unilag.edu.ng  +31
• compassnews.net +26
• newsstarng.com +25
• naijaecash.com and huhuonline.com +22

The Shakers

• Jambonline.org  -24
• Buyright.biz  -22
• naijapals.com  -15
• zenithbank.com and bbnsms.com -12
• osundefender.org  -9

Debutants

Couple of sites found their ways into the top-fifty sites in April.

• fansconnectonline.com
• completesportsnigeria.com
• newsstarng.com
• clicksng.com
• acn.aero

The Trends

It is sure football season as the hype towards this year’s Fifa world cup has taken hold of the internet. Two of our debutant sites are football related sites, while one break into the top twenty slots.

The Nigerian tech scene is waxing strong, Barcamp Nigeria was held last month and was super successful. This weekend, Alternative 2.0 will be held to channel Nigerian youths energy towards positive online ideals.

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VTN, Nigerian e-payment site set to raise N1.5 Billion ($10M) for expansion

We interviewed VTN CEO, Peter Ojo recently about their innovative e-payment system. Today comes a very big news, Virtual Terminal Network (VTN) is set to raise N1.5 billion ($10Million) in private placement. I got the scoop in my mail just this morning.

The fund is said “… will be used for the expansion of the company’s network, enhance its working capital and increase its operational capacity.”

The placement comprises of 1,520,000,000 ordinary shares of N1.00 each at N1.05 per share. This means that with about N55,000 you can participate.

Remember, this is a private place and not IPO. It’s usually opened to institutional investors and not the general public. If you are one, why not request for info here.

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Facebook adoption and spending on the rise in Africa

Facebook adoption continues to see growth every month. Let’s take a look at how it has feared this quarter. The countries under review have a combined 85% of total African population on Facebook.

Growth in South Africa has saturation point while Egypt, Tunisia and morocco are all fast rising.  Egypt added the highest number of users (392680) between February and now followed by Morocco (345, 380), Tunisia 309,920 and Nigeria, 155,480. Egypt added almost as much users the total number of Ghana, Facebook users.

Egypt is very far ahead of the pack, leading South Africa with more than 500,000 users and penetration still at 23.5%, it sure can increase the gap in months to come. South Africa’s increments in just 2% as oppose 21% or Morocco and Tunisia and 13% of both Egypt and Nigeria.

Chart

Demography

Spending on Facebook

As Facebook continues its search for profitability, it has to selectively choose which African country to focus on. Apparently, South Africa is a country of choice given the technology advancement in the country. Though Egypt and other African countries have considerable user base, but if they are unable to affect Facebook bottom-line, I think will be a huge liability to the company.

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Most visited Nigerian sites in March

The Nigerian web industry is heating up, we have seen many sites launched in this quarter. Though the top sites are still waxing strong.

Nairaland.com still on top, while punch continues pushing hard after nairaland.com. The most significant move this month is Gtbank.com that intelligently used social media to connect with its customers.

Both nairaland.com and punchng.com remains flat in their respecting positions 1 and 2. Gtbank.com is on the third spot moving 4 places. Vanguardngr.com lost another 1 spot to drop to 4th place. Sunnewsonline.com, thisdayonline.com and 234next.com are on the 5, 6, and 7 place as both thisdayonline.com and 234next.com dropping 2 places. Ngrguardiannews.com, nigeriagallery.com and naijahostjobs.com also made the top-ten.

You can view the full table here for the current and historical ranking. This review covered the top fifty.

The Movers

The Shakers

Drop offs

• Buyright.biz
• ngcareers.com
• webtrendsng.com
• sturvs.com
• nigeriamasterweb.com
• multilinks.com
• ican-ngr.com
• txtoweb.com

Note: Our ranking is based on Alexa Internet ranking system. We select Nigerian sites from the bunch to arrive at our ranking. This review is based on the top fifty Nigerian sites that we ranked.

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Most visited Nigerian sites in February 2010

As usual looking at how Nigerian website feared in the recent month. It again no surprise that nairaland.com remains on the top spot but its good to note how punchng.com rally from shadow of its formal glory to take back the second spot. We predicted last month that punchng.com will battle it out between 1^st and 2^nd spot this month; yeah indeed it proved us right. While vanguardngr.com relinquished the second spot for the veteran punchng.com. thisdayonline.com is back again with a massive push  upward to stand on the fourth spot while 234next.com also ramp up 3 places to stay on the 5^th spot.

Sunnewsonline.com dropped just 1 place as gtbank.com leads the banking industry on the 7^th spot. Ngrguardiannews.com gained just a spot while nigeriagalleria.com shed the most places in the top-ten losing 6^th points. Nigerianbestforum.com remains on the 10^th spot as it as last month.

You can view the full table here for the current and historical ranking. This review covered the top fifty.

Top Ten

1. nairaland.com
2. punchng.com
3. vanguardngr.com
4. thisdayonline.com
5. 234next.com
6. sunnewsonline.com
7. gtbank.com
8. ngrguardiannews.com
9. nigeriagalleria.com
10. nigerianbestforum.com

The Mover

Let’s look at the top movers for February;

• Technologytimesng.com 32
• Ican-ngr.com 26
• Sompassnews.net 22
• Independentngonline.com 20
• Smsbag.com 19
• Nigeriamasterweb.com 18

The Shakers

These sites could not keep-up with the heat, so they shed points;

• Jambutme.com 14
• Buyright.biz 9
• Jobberman.com 8
• bbnplace.com 7
• naijahotjobs.com, nigeriagalleria.com  6

The most significant shaker for month is nairalist.com

Debutants

It’s lovely to see that Nigerian web industry is active and adding many more sites daily. A total of 3 sites debuted on our ranking list. etisalat.com.ng topped the list having been able to break into the top-forty.

• Etisalat.com.ng
• Nigerianelitesforum.com
• Multilinks.com

Drop outs

These sites eventually dropped out of our top-fifty Nigerian sites;

• platgroupng.com
• arikair.com
• Bellanaija.com
• 50kobo.com
• flyaero.com
• nigerianscomplain.com
• nairalist.com

The Nigerian web industry is waking up as more startups are being launched from Nigerians at home and in Diaspora. News sites still dominate the top-ten site as more local contents are still needed to water the appetite of Nigerian internet users. I hope the events lined up for this year will help address these needs.

Note: Our ranking is based on Alexa Internet ranking system. We select Nigerian sites from the bunch to arrive at our ranking. This review is based on the top fifty Nigerian sites that we ranked.

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