Blogs dominate the list of most visited Kenyan websites

To try and get an idea of the website visiting habits of Kenyans online, I recently checked out the Kenyan top 500 most visited websites list at website ranking service Alexa.

Among the insights the data provided are:

A. Most websites in Kenya are largely International

The top 500 websites list in Kenya is dominated by International websites. The International websites are 382 (76%) as compared to Kenyan owned websites at 118 (24%).

B. Top 10 Kenyan websites

Foreign websites also dominated the top 10 most visited websites list.

Google.com
Facebook.com
Yahoo.com
Youtube.com
Google.co.ke
Ask.com
Twitter.com
Citizentv.co.ke
Standardmedia.co.ke
Nation.co.ke

C. Kenyan blogs are popular in the Kenyan online space

Kenyan blogs dominate the list of top Kenyan owned websites with 31 entries which comes to 27%. The top blog list is dominated by entertainment and gossip blogs.

The top Kenyan blogs are below

kenyan-post.com
ghafla.co.ke
nairobiwire.com
tuko.co.ke
niaje.com
mpasho.co.ke
kenyans.co.ke
techweez.com
bizna.co.ke
techmoran.com
theafricanewspost.com
nairobigossips.com
hapakenya.com
futaa.com
kenya-today.com
potentash.com
brostalk.com
hekaheka.com
Nyumbanitv.com
Kasanews.com
Kachwanya.com
naibuzz.com
Kenyayote.com
Mobitrends.co.ke
Politics.co.ke
Trendingpost.co.ke
Soka.co.ke
Bikozulu.co.ke
Lovelykenya.co.ke
Enews.co.ke
News-kenya.com

D. Domains top Kenyan websites use

The top websites in Kenya prefer the .KE domain with 71 (61%) websites using it against 46 (39%) for international domains. Government agencies and education institutions lead in .KE domains usage while blogs lead in the International domain usage.

E. Website of note

somalidocs.com is at no. 466 in Kenya. What is notable about is that it’s a niche website that mostly targets the Somali community but still managed to be popular.