sites feared in the last month of the year 2010. We must also take not of the fact that some companies closed office as early as 17^th of December so, people who usual browse in the office didn’t browse the internet as they normally would do.

The top ten list only has one casualty (nigeriagalleria.com) which dropped from 10^th spot to 16^th while others reshuffled their ranking within the top ten. The top ten is evenly split between news sites and other with 50% of the top ten being news related sites and others are; forum, jobs, bank and government site.

Nnpcgroup.com just reached it’s all time high, 8^th spot! Nairaland.com sits tight on the number one spot with its other contemporaries; punchng.com, vanguardngr.com, gtbank.com and sunnewsonline.com in the top five in that order.

With the holiday season on, taafo.com had an impressive moment as users trooped to the site to get discounted goods during the Christmas. Our biggest mover for the month is jamb.org.ng ; moving a whopping 79 places. The university matriculation examination season is on, the reason for the spike in traffic of the site. Web4africa.net also followed suite with a staggering 50 places move thanks to it’s acquisition of nairahost.com.

View full ranking for December 2010 month’s table here.

Top Ten

1         nairaland.com

2         punchng.com

3         vanguardngr.com

4         gtbank.com

5         sunnewsonline.com

6         nigerianbestforum.com

7         234next.com

8         nnpcgroup.com

9         naijahotjobs.com

10     tribune.com.ng

The Movers

• jamb.org.ng       +79
• Web4africa.net  +50
• gblcareers.com  +35
• nigeriang.com  +29
• Taafoo.com        +23

The Shakers

• huhuonline.com               -23
• 9jabook.com                      -19
• Informationnigeria.org  -12
• zenithbank.com               -11
• hotnigerianjobs.com      -10

Debutants; Fast rising

• joblistnigeria.com

Trends

Earlier in the month Web4Africa.net, one of Africa’s leading web hosting company acquired nairahost.com in an undisclosed amount. Pointing to a possible Merger and Acquisition spike to expect in year 2011. Social Innovation Camp Nigeria also announced prizes for the upcoming competition while it also shortlist 6 ideas for the coding competition. December went down a memorable day as a Nigerian teenager based in Canada launched a startup, Booknote.com.

The industry looks poised for next year’s big happenings; events are lined up starting with Barcamp Kaduna, Mobile Web West Africa, Barcamp Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. The industry also went agog as the first .ng ccTLD (thisday.ng) was registered and schedule for launch this January 2011.

We will make available, State of the Nigerian Web on the 13^th of this month; covering most visited sites for the year, economically viable Nigerian startups, Lifestyle of Nigerians online and a host of other stuffs we have been working on. Stay tuned!