While Facebook and YouTube (both non-Nepali websites) continue to dominate Internet user’s choice of most visited website in Nepal, Nepal’s news portals have finally pulled themselves on the top as near as 4th rank this year. And a lot of other websites have gone way from the top website list in Nepal in 2016. Also to note that global website ranking of Nepalese websites is not available, this article to list “top news websites of Nepal” our assumptions is based on those from Alexa statistics which is limited on it’s own algorithm.
There are over 1 billion websites on the Internet today (this excludes enterprise and corporate house’s Intranet based portals.) From 1 website back in 1991 to 1 billion in 2014, the history of websites on the public websphere has gone thru myriad of changes and rank fluctuations. According to Quantcast, not a single website from Nepal make it to the top sites list.
Top News, TV, Media or Magazine Websites or Web Portals in Nepal 2016
| SN | Site Name | Site Description (pulled automatically) | Category |
| 1 | Ekantipur | ekantipur delivers latest news updates on national and international issues including politics, sports, business and entertainment with photo, audio and video. | News |
| 2 | Onlinekhabar | No. 1 News Portal from Nepal. We Provide News and Information regarding Political News, National, Business, Social, Sports, Interview, Public Feedback, Videos, Photo Feature – wherever you are, whatever your age. | News |
| 3 | Nagariknews | Online Nepali News Portal.. | News |
| 4 | Ratopati | Politics, National and international issues, sports, entertainment and other news from all over | News |
| 5 | Annapurnapost | (Nepali Language) News portal with up-to-date news from Nepal on politics, social affairs, finance and economy, op-eds, interviews, lifestyle, entertainment, sports and web exclusive contents. | News |
| 6 | News24Nepal.tv | Welcome to the News24nepal.tv. Get breaking news, must see videos and exclusive interviews from the number#1 name for news in NEPAL | News |
| 7 | Etajakhabar | Etajakhabar.com is Nepali Language Based News Portal Website. It is Run By Taja Media Pvt. Ltd. | News |
| 8 | Setopati | Online destination for Nepal news, views, reviews, features, blogs and audio video content covering Nepali politics, society, market, arts, entertainment and sports. | News |
| 9 | NepaliHeadlines | NepaliHeadlines, a rapidly expanding news portal | News |
| 10 | Bigul News | निष्पक्ष समाचार, विचार र विष्लेषण | News |
No any other website other than news sites from Nepal have been able to rank well. Medianp, Purbeli News, Swasthyakhabar succeed above list of top news websites Nepal. While popular websites such as BBC Nepali, The Himalayan Times, Baahrakhari, Nepalipatra are no where on the first page of top and most visited websites in Nepal as per Alexa top sites in Nepal.
The most popular non-news Nepali website in the country is Hamrobazaar.com followed by Kaymu eCommerce portal.
The trend has shown in the past that “MFA (made for adsense) websites” were able to gain visitors enough to come in the top website list mainly due to Facebook’s advertisement or cloaking or black hat SEO ways, however due to various Google algorithms and people’s awareness they have taken their positions back to where they should have been.
What’s your thought about Nepal’s top news or any other websites? Do share your views below.
#4 Ratopati is poor in the technology it uses, #7 Etajakhabar looks like a spammy website, while #9 NepaliHeadlines looks like aggregated news channel. Are we in so much need of just copy-paste news culture?
#4 Ratopati is poor in the technology it uses, #7 Etajakhabar looks like a spammy website, while #9 NepaliHeadlines looks like aggregated news channel. Are we in so much need of just copy-paste news culture?
Yes I agree with Dhiraj, http://www.nepalsamachar.net looks good, they look like someone who can bring some change. They have future
Yes I agree with Dhiraj, http://www.nepalsamachar.net looks good, they look like someone who can bring some change. They have future