Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Asian free market websites, part 3

The small trend is there: the websites of free market-oriented think tanks and publications in Asia are improving their online presence and traffic ranking.

I just checked tonight www.alexa.com the global traffic rank (out of possibly a billion or more blogs and websites worldwide) of the following websites and here are the results. The geographical audience reference is a direct quote from alexa.

1. www.cfe.org (Center for Free Enterprise, Seoul, S. Korea)
1 month 389,383
3 month 533,760

2. www.newasiarepublic.com (NAR, Singapore)
"… Approximately 75% of visitors to this site come from Singapore, where it has attained a traffic rank of 2,098."
1 month 445,283
3 month 620,51

3. www.ccsindia.org (Center for Civil Society, Delhi, India)
"... The site has attained a traffic rank of 90,790 among users in India, where about 79% of its audience is located."
1 month 744,747
3 month 753,653

4. www.unirule.org.cn (Unirule Institute of Economics, Beijing, China)
"…We estimate that 83% of visitors to Unirule.org.cn come from China, where it has attained a traffic rank of 142,015."
1 month 1,219,079
3 month 973,111

5. www.lionrockinstitute.org (Lion Rock Institute, LRI, Hong Kong)
"This site has attained a traffic rank of 11,691 among users in Hong Kong, where we estimate that 68% of its audience is located."
1 month 1,703,753
3 month 3,158,042

6. www.freemarket.kg (Central Asian Free Market Institute, CAFMI, Bishkek, Kyrgyztan)
1 month 1,935,617
3 month 3,000,915

7. 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 --
3 month 2,411,208

8. www.asinstitute.org (Alternate Solution Institute, Lahore, Pakistan)
1 month 3,267,160
3 month 5,411,907

9. www.doimoi.org (Reform and Development, Hanoi, Vietnam)
1 month 3,282,173
3 month 6,127,435

10. www.samriddhi.org (Prosperity Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal)
1 month 4,105,610
3 month 2,674,162

11. www.readtheboss.com (The Boss, Kathmandu, Nepal)
1 month 4,316,787
3 month 4,402,465

12. http://azadliqciragi.org (Free Minds Association, Azerbaijan)
1 month 4,666,173
3 month 4,231,546

13. www.minimalgovernment.net (Minimal Government Thinkers, Manila, Philippines)
"...Almost all the site's visitors are in the Philippines, where it has attained a traffic rank of 64,382."
1 month 4,848,014
3 month 5,775,541

14. www.akademimerdeka.org (Freedom Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia)
1 month 9,538,100
3 month 7,343,303

15. http://efnasia.org (Economic Freedom Network-Asia, Bangkok, Thailand)
1 month 10,553,258
3 month 19,468,655

16. www.ebi.mn (EBI, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
1 month 12,642,054
3 month 14,772,260

17. http:djargal.blogspot.com (Mongolians for Fair Taxes and Wise Spending, MFTWS, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
1 month 14,457,844
3 month 8,052,447

18. www.indefenceofliberty.org (Liberty Institute, Delhi, India)
1 month -
3 month 22,996,586

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

1. http://feijapan.wordpress.com (Free Economy Institute, Tokyo, Japan)

2. http://lgn.org.np/ (Limited Government Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal)

Now, comparing their global rank last April 25 this year, see my earlier review, Asian free market websites, part 2, here are the sites that either jumped high in global 1-month rank, or generally retained their high rank, over the past two weeks:

1. CFE, Korea: from #301,481 to #389,383
2. NAR, Singapore: from #784,742 to #445,283
3. CCS, India: from #863,822 to $744,747
4. Unirule, China: from #1,450,959 to #1,219,079
5. LRI, HK: from #3,924,339 to #1,703,753
6. CAFMI, Kyrgyztan: from #1,759,160 to #1,935,617
7. ASI, Pakistan: from #6,194,792 to #3,267,160 (and from "no data" just 5 weeks ago!)
8. RD, Vietnam: from #15,816,260 to #3,282,170!
9. The Boss, Nepal: from #6,140,892 to #4,316,787
10. FMA, Azerbaijan: from $5,220,866 to #4,666,173
11. EBI, Mongolia: from "no data" to #12,642,054

Congratulations, Chung-ho Kim (CFE), Donaldson Tan (NAR), Parth Shah (CCS), Zhao Xu (Unirule), Peter Wong (LRI), Michu Namazaliev (CAFMI), Khalil Ahmad (ASI), Minh Nguyen (RD), Charu Rizal (The Boss), Tural Veliyev (FMA), and Baagi Shagdar (EBI).

More updates in the coming weeks.

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