Posted on 02 September 2010

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 3rd 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 54th 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

  • nairaland.com
  • punchng.com
  • nigerianbestforum.com
  • gtbank.com
  • sunnewsonline.com
  • vanguardngr.com
  • naijahotjobs.com
  • 234next.com
  • taafoo.com
  • thisdayonline.com

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.