We have reviewed our ranking for the month of May and saw big surprises. Naijahotjobs.com that displaced nairaland.com last month to become Nigeria’s most visited website has lost its place to third place. Punchng.com rally over both nairaland.com and naijahotjobs.com to become Nigeria’s most visited site for this month.
Obviously, the Ekiti election have something to do with punchng.com rally to the top, we hope to see it sustain this level over the coming months. Could we say also that job hunts have reduced? I think we should ask naijahotjobs.com what’s up. It was laudable to see them at the top but we still are not happy with the sudden drop. Shedding as much as 10 places overall but only 2 amongst Nigerians’ site.
The movers and shakers
The sphere is changing, Nigerians seem to be more social than resource searching… this I guess could be said to be truth by the upsurge in the social networking usage in Nigeria. Nigerians on facebook.com has grown about 50% from January 2009 to this time. Consequently Facebook.com has displaced Google.com as the second most visited site in Nigeria overall. Nigerians are beginning to tweet, twitter has broken into the top sites in Nigeria sitting right at number 64. Keep talking Nigerian!
This month’s ranking, brought about 5 sites out of the top hundred. Namely; gsmhosting.com, nigeriannews.com, starcomms.com, alljobsnigeria.com and buyright.biz. Buyright luckily made our list last month by topping the list from behind. Having reduced its adverts on facebook.com, I guess that has began taking a toll on the visits. Jamb.org.ng also shed considerable numbers. 4 new sites joined the list (myjambexams.com, 9jafans.com, jambonline.org and naijaecash.com). Mynaijanews.com is the overall mover; moving 28 points overall and 7 amongst Nigerian sites. Odili.net shed the most overall with 16 points while jamb.org.ng shed the most amongst Nigerian sites.
Ranking table for May 2009 (base on Alexa.com engine watch out for Web Trends Nigeria SiteTrack)

How to interpret the ranking
The Overall Ranking is base on all top sites visited by Nigerians while Nigerian Ranking is the top sites developed and operated by Nigerians. The moves are based on our monthly tracking. Last month ranking was made available on our magazine Web Trends Magazine click to subscribe of view past editions.
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