Kenya’s top 150 local web sites on Opera Mini
Opera Mini is undoubtedly one of the most popular mobile web browsers in the world – and especially on the majority of feature phones that you find in highly mobile-centric markets such as Africa. In this respect, Opera Mini does represent the majority of mobile web users in Africa who tend to use everything from very entry-level GPRS enabled feature phones to those who have 3G on Advanced phones. In many African markets, feature phones make up as over 90% of the mobile devices that are used by mobile subscribers, across the board. Therefore, for this reason, I am very excited to share the information below which represents the top 150 local Kenyan web sites accessed via Opera Mini in the month of August 2012.
The information below was shared with me by a representative of Opera who gave me raw data that I then had to carefully “curate” so as to weed out any questionable web sites or sites that were not fully representative of what could be considered to a genuinely “Kenyan” list (trust me, this has been a time consuming and tedious process so I hope you will find the information useful!). Indeed, the number of web sites with questionable content was quite startling. In addition, I opted to focus only on local web sites for Kenya since it would serve as a good benchmark of seeing where else mobile Internet users in Kenya on Opera Mini “go to” apart from the usual suspects such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. The ranking below is reasonably(?) accurate meaning that I am aware that in some cases one or more domain names may actually point to one web site but I did not have the time to “fix” this issue. The number next to the domain name in the list represents the total number of unique visitors in the month of August 2012. A trend I noticed in the list below is that sites representing media, careers, education and government seemed to be the most popular. So, finally, here is the list:
- nation.co.ke 158930
- standardmedia.co.ke 146330
- safaricom.com 82556
- mocality.co.ke 76310
- kenyan-post.com 61662
- capitalfm.co.ke 57834
- uonbi.ac.ke 43723
- the-star.co.ke 41438
- kenyaplex.com 36243
- kenya-daily.com 34029
- helb.co.ke 28997
- ntv.co.ke 28238
- kenyanlist.com 27730
- nairobiwire.com 26065
- ghafla.co.ke 25920
- ku.ac.ke 22962
- safaricom.co.ke 20582
- futaa.com 20277
- businessdailyafrica.com 18245
- mashada.com 18125
- n-soko.com 17084
- iebc.or.ke 12744
- kenyancareer.com 12733
- kenyajoblink.com 12428
- citizennews.co.ke 12390
- nationmedia.com 11977
- jobsinkenya254.com 11811
- careerpointkenya.com 11510
- theeastafrican.co.ke 10621
- dealfish.co.ke 10303
- michezoafrika.com 10267
- bestjobskenya.com 10200
- brightermonday.com 9524
- wazua.co.ke 9461
- eastandard.net 9028
- identity.go.ke 8991
- ghettoradio.co.ke 8607
- kbo.co.ke 8586
- olx.co.ke 8457
- softkenya.com 8444
- yellow.co.ke 8087
- thetimpata.com 7449
- kenyalaw.org 7424
- niaje.com 7190
- yell.co.ke 7033
- jkuat.ac.ke 6681
- ghris.go.ke 6604
- crazynairobian.com 6379
- kasneb.or.ke 6322
- openbook.co.ke 6201
- mwakilishi.com 6152
- egoimagekenya.com 5943
- buni.tv 5936
- kpl.co.ke 5919
- jambonewspot.com 5745
- izvipi.com 5743
- careerjet.co.ke 5723
- mombasa411.org 5594
- egerton.ac.ke 5504
- businesslist.co.ke 5427
- citizentv.co.ke 5350
- kbc.co.ke 5315
- westfm.co.ke 5150
- tsc.go.ke 4952
- maseno.ac.ke 4804
- pesatalk.com 4767
- jamiiforums.com 4743
- kra.go.ke 4600
- knec.ac.ke 4504
- kenyamoja.com 4343
- mm.co.ke 4272
- cheki.co.ke 4263
- nationhela.com 4229
- kcbbankgroup.com 4056
- mmu.ac.ke 4055
- kplc.co.ke 3891
- in2eastafrica.net 3781
- kenyanmagazines.com 3769
- kenyapolice.go.ke 3758
- equitybank.co.ke 3680
- statehousekenya.go.ke 3661
- mku.ac.ke 3604
- nipate.com 3597
- uzanunua.com 3522
- foxtheatres.co.ke 3512
- swahilihub.com 3503
- strathmore.edu 3492
- jobseastafrica247.com 3389
- pikachakula.com 3329
- mmust.ac.ke 3247
- mu.ac.ke 3172
- kenya-airways.com 3170
- africareview.com 3155
- mod.go.ke 3133
- actors.co.ke 3070
- toyotakenya.com 3059
- kemu.ac.ke 2998
- yu.co.ke 2996
- kenyanstar.co.ke 2979
- kmtc.ac.ke 2946
- kenyaforum.net 2851
- kenyabuzz.com 2836
- raila-odinga.com 2835
- coastweek.com 2825
- jobscareerkenya.com 2825
- kenyastockholm.com 2812
- cio.co.ke 2789
- pigiame.co.ke 2747
- gormahia.net 2743
- safaricomfoundation.org 2653
- education.go.ke 2647
- knowkenya.org 2578
- co-opbank.co.ke 2568
- kenya4.com 2551
- cck.go.ke 2519
- zuku.co.ke 2484
- ehealth.or.ke 2469
- moseskemibaro.com 2458
- mzalendo.com 2437
- cickenya.org 2402
- mirp.go.ke 2310
- kenya47.com 2268
- marsgroupkenya.org 2268
- softkenya.net 2229
- zuqka.com 2222
- teachersonline.go.ke 2218
- chep.ac.ke 2181
- orange.co.ke 2152
- starfm.co.ke 2139
- yellowpageskenya.com 2127
- dailyjobsinkenya.com 2106
- kioskea.net 2098
- kenyacelebrities.com 2094
- schoolskenya.net 2094
- hivisasa.com 2087
- dennisitumbi.com 2074
- kenyanbestforum.com 2064
- revenue.go.ke 2038
- startimes.co.ke 2030
- centralbank.go.ke 2016
- psckjobs.go.ke 2007
- kenyapolytechnic.ac.ke 2002
- muchene.com 1987
- newsupdate.co.ke 1979
- educatekenya.info 1963
- allkenyanews.com 1961
- publicservice.go.ke 1949
- junkmail.co.ke 1947
- kws.org 1943
- itakuaje.com 1904
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12 Comments
This is a very important list͵ for more than a few reasons. Thanks for taking the time to compile it.
@peter thanks! Glad you appreciate the list 🙂
what kind of time-period does the numbers cover ?
@mike this is for the month of August 2012.
Great! Stats deliver perspective. Is it possible to have this appearing say, quarterly, bi-annually or annually? Statistically ie?
@carolkmail great suggestion. I will ask my contacts at Opera for the same and see what they say? This could be ideal for the period July – September 2012.
Hi Moses, do you mind sharing the raw data say on email? Thank you for the comprehensive list.
@wiselar unfortunately not possible.
Nice info sir, hope you can be updating this bi-annually. Regards
@musa we will try and keep this updated from time to time.
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