There are also blind spots in the survey Alexa lacks information on countries with small Internet populations, including much of Sub-Saharan Africa.Ĭhina is a particularly interesting case: The Chinese search engine Baidu is the most visited website in the country, but its success may be engineered in part by the government. Japan and Taiwan are Yahoo!’s last bastions, and in Russia the search engine Yandex tops the list. The al-Watan Voice newspaper, for instance, is the most visited site in the Palestinian territories, while a Russian email service,, dominates in Kazakhstan. And while researchers found that Google and Facebook reigned supreme among Internet users across the globe, there were some notable exceptions. Using public data from the web traffic service Alexa, the Oxford Internet Institute’s Information Geographies blog has mapped the most popular websites by country (the colonial-style map above is entitled, «Age of Internet Empires»). But what’s more interesting is where they’re not.
Sure, it’s not all that surprising that Google and Facebook are the most visited websites in almost every country. Most visited website per Country weighted by Internet Population
0 kommentar(er)
