The factors that influence whether a website will receive visitors is its ranking on the Search Engine Result Pages(SERPs) which in turn depends on adherence to search engine regulations and guidelines, quality of the content, keyword relevance as well as speed. Some websites have met this criterion and therefore receiving the most visitors. Here is a list of the top 10 most visited Ghanaian websites in 2016 based on Alexa Ranking.
1. Ghanaweb (www.ghanaweb.com)
Crowning the list of 10 most visited websites in Ghana is the Ghanaweb website. In as much as it is still a young news website it has been able to collect a large number of traffic from Ghanaians. The website has over 67k facebook followers and 4.5k twitter followers. They receive about 2,423,229 page views daily. The website is ranked 1,974 globally.
2. Myjoyonline (www.myjoyonline.com)
The Multimedia Group Ltd website, myjoyonline records supersonic growth speed each day as the bring news from various fields within and outside the country. The website records about 3.06 pageviews per visitor daily. In the alexa global ranking, they are found on the 14,287 as of july 2016.
3. Peacefmonline (www.peacefmonline.com
More than just a traditional broadcaster, Peace FM has a convincing amount of traffic from Ghanaians. The station delivers services to all Ghanaians on platforms ranging from news, online radio and audio on demand. They record about 5.52 pageviews per visitor daily and rank 18,238 globally.
4. Pulse.com.gh
Pulse gh rocks when it comes to provision of Ghanaian online news in entertainments. This highly independent news source has over 124K facebook likes and over 23.5K followers on twitter. According to alexa, it records an average 8.20 pageviews per visitor daily and ranks 24,382 globally.
5. Jumia gh (www.jumia.com.gh)
This is unique inclusion in this list beacause Jumia.com.gh deals with online retail of electronics(including computers), cooks, beauty products and others. Those who visit this website spend approximately 4 minutes .The website is ranked 32,861 globally and records an estimation of 2.10 daily pageviews per visitor. Almost 90 percent of the website's massive traffic stem from Ghana while the rest come from Nigeria, Portugal and France.
6. OMGVoice (www.omgvoice.com)
The African pop-culture,entertainment and lifestyle website, omgvoice is a Ghanaian ,Kenyaian and Nigerian based website. Its attractive template really does the magic of getting huge traffic from Ghanaians. The estimated daily pageviews per visitor is 5.20 and ranked 12,253 globally.
7. Citifmonline (www.citifmonline.com)
Another very popular website in Ghana is Citifmonline. Another local online daily provides trustworthy new on the happenings in Nigeria. Like Peacefmonline, it is also a radio owned website. The website attracts visitors mainly from Ghana and about 8% of it traffic is from nigeria. The visitors spend more than six minutes browsing for news articles and visiting more than three pages with each visit. The website ranks around 33,592 position globally.
8. Empressleak (www.empressleak.biz)
This is a surprise guest to this list of top 10 most visited Ghanaian websites in Ghana. Thid because it does not deal in the usual niches that the other websites deal in. Empressleak offers uncensored content of Ghanaian leaks. The website has disturbing contents and environment, which keeps me wondering, Why do people like visiting such a place? comment below. The website has estimates 6.7 pageviews per visitor daily and ranked 23,680 globally.
9. Brytfmonline (www.brytfmonline.com)
This radio station website specializes in providing coverage on several topical subjects, but also promotes local events, music and business. It boasts of an estimated 8.990 daily pageviews per visitor and average of 20 minutes daily time on site. The website recieves almost 100 percents of it traffic from Ghana. surprising! Alexa traffic ranking places brytfmonline on the 66,501 position.
10. Starrfmonline (www.starrfmonline.com)
Starrfmonline.com is another radio website that has recorded exponential decrease over the past few months. With an estimated daily pageviews of 3.09 per visitor, starrfmonline is ranked 44,648. It has an estimated daily time on site of about four minutes. About 70 percents of it traffic comes from Ghana while the rest is recorded from Nigeria , Guinea, South Africa and India.
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