We have extended our coverage to top 30 sites in Nigeria. This month’s ranking is encouraging given the hits these sites amass just under a month. This goes a long way to show that Nigerians on the internet are increasing, or better said; Nigerians are using the internet more.

This month witnessed a shock, seeing number 1 site (punchng.com) for last month dropping to number 7 and losing as much as 20 places in overall ranking. What could be wrong with punchng.com? Could it be that their newly launched product (Mobile Punch) as made people vacant their homepage to their mobile platform? Or people are getting angry with The Punch?

Well I will say it’s a good thing to see Nairaland.com retaking its place after about 3 months spell in the second place. With this flight by Nairaland, I will like to call your attention once again to the fact that the web has become highly participatory; away from the old push-and-pull format. Nairaland.com being a forum and contributors are open-ended; it has been able to use that to its advantage by bouncing back. People really like talking!

Dragnetnigeria.com, nigeriamasterweb.com, 234next.com and unilag.edu.ng popped into our top Nigerian site but slipped 7, 5 and 6 respectively except for unilag.edu.ng that remained unmoved.

The banking sector has been dropping since May, the trend also continued this month with gtbplc.com and zenithbank.com dropping 11 and 3 places respectively. Could it be the credit-crunch or online security?

The highest mover this month is nigeriagalleria.com moving as much as 11 places; highest in recent times. While odili.net moved 8 places. A welcome development I must say.

We have 7 new entrants; highest also in recent time (thanks to our extension to top 30); thenationonlineng.net , sturvs.com , independentngonline.com , naijapals.com, 9jafans, nigeriannews.com and buyright.biz. naijapals.com and buyright.biz are resurging on our list having dropped off couple months ago.