The Mobile Web In Kenya

I got some interesting stats on the state of the mobile web in Kenya. (Got them here).

Have a look:

  • Page-view growth since November 2008: 615.4%
  • Unique-user growth since November 2008: 246.2%
  • Page views per user: 525
  • Data (compressed) transferred per user (MB): 5
  • Data (compressed) transferred per page view (KB): 10

Top 10 sites in Kenya (unique users)

  1. facebook.com
  2. yahoo.com
  3. wikipedia.org
  4. bbc.co.uk
  5. youtube.com
  6. gmail.com
  7. live.com
  8. hotmail.com
  9. twitter.com
  10. cnnmobile.com

It seems that both the number of people who access the internet from their mobile phones and the time they spend online is increasing at an unimaginable pace…..but we already knew this, right?

The interesting thing to me here is that in the top 10 sites visited, there is no local site. How strange! What does this mean for you and I? The race is on to produce a website that Kenyan’s will flock to. I suspect the same thing goes for PC users. We need a large uniquely Kenyan website. Will it be you who comes up with it? Why not?

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Comments

  1. Paul Kevin says:

    Nice, since u do sites, I know that wordpress got a wap site plugin, or something close….but mobile sites are a must these days

  2. That list smells of BS. There is no way in hell, heaven or earth that Google misses out on a top 10 websites list anywhere(except China). I’d like to know how they got their stats.

  3. Yap, this list is really false.
    True list is,

    1. google.co.ke
    2. yahoo.com
    3. facebook.com
    4. google.com
    5. youtube.com
    6. blogger.com
    7. wikipedia.org
    8. live.com
    9. twitter.com
    10. tagged.com

    Don’t ask me why google appears twice.

    Reference: alexa.com, check it out when you can..

  4. But isn’t that for the internet in general rather than the mobile web?

    This post was for the top sites accessed by mobile devices…ama?

  5. Am posting this from operamini. I browse most of the time on operamini because of the low costs and high loading speeds. Its now possible to browse with ksh.0.90 for 30 minutes as long as you set images off:p visit my site http://kenyawap.xtgem.com i got some kitchen versions of operamini.

  6. Hi Speaking of Mobile Sites, Do you people realize By 2013 mobile internet will surpass PCs.
    and also that 5.3% of visits to restaurant websites are via mobile devices,
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