Top 50 Websites in Nepal – only 15 are Nepali

website-ranking We don’t have a system to rank websites in Nepal. The truth is, we don’t have that many quality websites to rank. The only tool I could find was Alexa.com. It gives country rankings of websites.

A very simple analysis of the data shows that all the popular sites in Nepal are foreign sites. Only one Nepali site in the top 10 ranking is ranked 10th.

The analysis showed that:

  • Facebook (no. 1) is more popular than Google (2 and 3). Due to the local tdl (com.np and .com) the visitors in Google are divided. When they are combined, Google might still be the most popular website in Nepal.
  • The first Nepali website, Nagariknews.com is ranked 10, followed by eKantipur.com in rank 12.
  • Out of 50 top websites popular in Nepal, only 30% websites (15 numbers) were Nepali websites.
  • Nepali news websites were the most popular in Nepal with, almost half (40%) of the 15 Nepali websites were news websites. Entertainment sites were second with 27% share (4 numbers).
  • xnepali.com was ranked 43 and was the 13th most popular website in Nepal.

Ranking tables follow:

Table 1: Nepali websites by category

Site category Number % total
News websites (Nagarik, kantipur,  mysansar, nepalnews, onlinekhabar and himalayantimes etc.)

6

40

Jobs and Education (merojob, jobsnepal, and educationsansar)

3

20

Entertainment sites (Cybersansar,Thikthak, xNepali, and Mazzako)

4

27

ISPs (ntc and mos)

2

13

Total 15 100

Table 2: Top 50 website ranking in Nepal (Alexa)

N. Rank Rank Site N. Rank Rank Site
  1 facebook.com   26 travian.com
  2 google.com   27 cricinfo.com
  3 google.com.np   28 rapidshare.com
  4 yahoo.com   29 mozilla.com
  5 live.com   30 wordpress.org
  6 youtube.com       9 31 onlinekhabar.com
  7 blogger.com   32 about.com
  8 wikipedia.org   33 explorehimalaya.com
  9 fifa.com      10 34 thehimalayantimes.com
     1 10 nagariknews.com      11 35 mazzako.com
  11 msn.com   36 adobe.com
     2 12 ekantipur.com   37 hi5.com
     3 13 ntc.net.np      12 38 educationsansar.com
  14 twitter.com   39 google.co.uk
  15 wordpress.com   40 joomla.org
  16 myrepublica.com   41 stragsolution.com
     4 17 cybersansar.com      13 42 xnepali.com
     5 18 merojob.com      14 43 thikthak.com
  19 bbc.co.uk   44 linkedin.com
     6 20 nepalnews.com      15 45 mos.com.np
  21 bing.com   46 cnet.com
  22 microsoft.com   47 bp.blogspot.com
  23 flickr.com   48 paypal.com
     7 24 mysansar.com   49 apple.com
     8 25 jobsnepal.com   50 thepiratebay.org

ref., N.Rank – Nepali website Rank, Rank – Overall rank, Site– website (Site names and ranks written in bold font for Nepali websites)

With this analysis we can conclude that news sites are the most popular Nepali websites. After news, entertainment site are second most popular websites.

Disclaimer: The ranking data was collected on July 16, 2010. These values are dynamic and might be different at the time of publication. Alexa ranking might not be a true representation of ranking. This ranking is only true for the Nepali visitors. Hence, sites like dcnepal.com and nepaljapan.com that are more popular abroad, didn’t make it to the top in the list.

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