Popularity Index of Malaysian Websites

I am curious about Malaysia’s most successful websites, and wonder how popular these websites really are in terms of number of visitors. Most of us know that Alexa could point us to the Top 100 websites in Malaysia, but the accuracy is questionable and the skewed towards certain segment; yet we still use it because there isn’t a better alternative. We could try Compete and Quantqast as well, but still isn’t a good enough estimate. Recently I found out about Google AdPlanner, which some useful data on Unique Visitors per Month. If I combined all these data together, I should have a pretty good idea about the popularity index of Malaysian Web.

I filtered out service oriented websites which is used to support their off-line operation such as Maybank2u, AirAsia, Sports Toto, Malaysia Airlines, Public Bank, Maxis, Magnum, CIMB Clicks, TM.

	Alexa Ranking	Google AdPlanner Visitor	Compete Visitor	Quantcast Visitor
Thestar.com.my	1950	1.3 M	98,258	83.6K
Malaysiakini.com	2456	1.2 M	8,122	23.9K
Mudah.com.my	4885	1.1 M	6,824	3.9K
Cari.com.my	4262	690K	2,000	-
Utusan.com.my	3491	1.1 M	6,895	-
Lowyat.net	4316	690 K	25,077	40.6K
Bharian.com.my	5479	990 K	1,502	-
Hmetro.com.my	7159	840 K	1,069	-
Lelong.com.my	8297	470 K	4,336	3.1K
m2day.org	6422	430 K	7,102	-
Chinapress.com.my	8074	350 K	2,799	2.5K
Harakahdaily.net	10,259	510 K	3,685	-
Jobstreet.com.my	23,541	360 K	3,098	-
Ebay.com.my	7604	350 K	111,807	111.9K
Kosmo.com.my	15,630	420 K	594	-
www.jbtalks.cc	16,877	220 K	348	-
Iproperty.com.my	37,150	150 K	2,481	-
Mycen.com.my	55,789	200 K	2,622	-
Kennysia.com	25,971	110 K	5,607	20.5K
Petalingstreet.org	201,876	17 K	1,209	-
Liewcf.com	24,586	52 K	70,711	43.1K
Anwaribrahim.com	333,255	12 K	-	-
Limkitsiang.com	38,525	100 K	2,081	-
Cedet.com	7,897,804	-	-	-
Jeffooi.com	63,098	83 K	5,931

Most of the famous websites in Malaysia is either an online newspaper or blog, with few useful web application such as Lelong, Jobstreet and Mycen.

To get noticed (or to be considered popular in Malaysia), we would need around 100K visitors per month (based on Google AdPlanner) with Alexa Ranking of below 50,000. Check out DNFame for a basic summary of your websites popularity.

PS: MalaysiaMostWanted.com is not too bad after all, just a few more step to stardom!