Monday, April 25, 2011

Asian free market websites, part 2

If improvement in alexa's global traffic ranking is one of many indicators if the free market perspective is gaining in Asia or not, then I can say that somehow we ARE gaining.

I again checked today alexa.com the global traffic rank (out of possibly a billion or more blogs and websites worldwide) of the websites of our fellow free market think tanks and groups in Asia. The geographical audience reference is a direct quote from alexa. Here they are.

1. www.cfe.org (Center for Free Enterprise, Seoul, S. Korea)
1 month 301,481
3 month 588,476

2. www.newasiarepublic.com (NAR, Singapore)
"… We estimate that 83% of the site's visitors are in Singapore, where it has attained a traffic rank of 3,529."
1 month 784,742
3 month 852,105

3. www.ccsindia.org (Center for Civil Society, Delhi, India)
"... The site has attained a traffic rank of 91,915 among users in India, where about 91% of its audience is located."
1 month 863,822
3 month 866,094

4. www.unirule.org.cn (Unirule Institute of Economics, Beijing, China)
"…We estimate that 75% of visitors to Unirule.org.cn come from China, where it has attained a traffic rank of 174,933."
1 month 1,450,959
3 month 1,028,386

5. www.freemarket.kg (Central Asian Free Market Institute, CAFMI, Bishkek, Kyrgyztan)
1 month 1,759,160
3 month 2,994,808

6. www.deas.org.my (Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, IDEAS, KL, Malaysia)
"…. Almost all visitors to the site come from Malaysia, where it has attained a traffic rank of 29,258."
1 month 2,991,200
3 month 2,264,898

7. www.lionrockinstitute.org (Lion Rock Institute, LRI, Hong Kong)
1 month 3,924,339
3 month 4,134,017

8. www.minimalgovernment.net (Minimal Government Thinkers, Manila, Philippines)
"...Roughly 77% of the site's visitors are in the Philippines, where it has attained a traffic rank of 73,906."
1 month 4,089,115
3 month 5,223,079

9. www.akademimerdeka.org (Freedom Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia)
1 month 5,074,539
3 month 5,953,841

10. http://azadliqciragi.org (Free Minds Association, Azerbaijan)
1 month 5,220,866
3 month 1,734,774

11. www.readtheboss.com (The Boss, Kathmandu, Nepal)
1 month 6,140,892
3 month 4,428,197

12. www.asinstitute.org (Alternate Solution Institute, Lahore, Pakistan)
1 month 6,194,792
3 month 6,183,338

13. http://efnasia.org (Economic Freedom Network-Asia, Bangkok, Thailand)
1 month 10,695,861
3 month 19,171,202

14. www.doimoi.org (Reform and Development, Hanoi, Vietnam)
1 month 15,816,260
3 month 15,130,801

15. www.indefenceofliberty.org (Liberty Institute, Delhi, India)
1 month -
3 month 22,635,351

16. www.ebi.mn (EBI, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
1 month -
3 month 25,668,140

Those with "No Data" yet, but are definitely free marketers:

1. http://feijapan.wordpress.com (Free Economy Institute, Tokyo, Japan)
2. www.samridhi.org (Prosperity Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal)
3. http://lgn.org.np/ (Limited Government Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal)

Now, comparing their global rank last April 5 this year, see my earlier review, Asian free market websites, here are the sites that jumped high in global 1-month rank in just three weeks:

a. CFE, Korea: from #562,219 up to #301,481!
b. CCS, India: from #935,512 up to #863,822
c. CAFMI, Kyrgyztan: from #3,487,932 up to #1,759,160
d. LRI, HK: from #5,327,369 up to #3,924,339
e. MGT, Philippines: from #6,521,950 up to #4,089,115
f. The Boss, Nepal: from #7,335,497 up to #6,140,892
g. FI, Indonesia: from #9,321,814 up to #5,074,539
h. ASI, Pakistan: from "no data" up to #6,194,792

Congratulations, Chung-ho Kim (CFE), Parth Shah (CCS), Michu Namazaliev (CAFMI), Peter Wong (LRI), Charu Rizal (The Boss), Luthfi Assyaukanie (FI), and Khalil Ahmad (ASI)!

A few friends' sites suffered some minor decline though.

a. NAR, Singapore: from #727,229 down to #784,742
b. Unirule, China: from #934,154 down to #1,450,959
c. FMA, Azerbaijan: from #4,726,623 down to #5,220,866
d. RD, Vietnam: from #13,856,101 down to #15,816,260

More updates in the coming weeks.

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