Where do Ethiopians go on the web? The list below from Alexa.com, a web ranking service provides an answer.

The list below is taken from Alexa website on July 5th 2011. It ‘is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past month. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1,’ according to Alexa.

How is the ranking computed? Alexa explains as follows:

The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources, and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis. The main Alexa traffic rank is based on a value derived from these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users). The three-month change is determined by comparing the site’s current rank with its rank from three months ago. For example, on July 1, the three-month change would show the difference between the rank based on traffic during the first quarter of the year and the rank based on traffic during the second quarter. [Read here(a brief explanation) or here(a detailed explanation).]

Thank you for your regular visit, Danielberhane’s Blog is ranked at #23. In fact, this blog has mostly been in the top 25 league since mid-October 2010. Given the intermittent internet connection, it is only appropriate to honor your participation in this blog by sharing reading materials via e-mail. Thus, all those who participated in this blog, since April 16/2011, may expect a couple of PDF documents in their inbox by mid-July. Afterwards, every 2-4 weeks.

Here is the Top 100 sites in Ethiopia of mid 2011.

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You may see the list of websites ranking 101st to 500th on Alexa website(link).