In March, we decided that we would publish the statistics of online news publications for each month and so here we are once again, looking at the numbers from the interesting month that was April.
We had some interesting highlights on the news scene as Mnangagwa released “the list”, the government legalised the use of Marijuana (for medicinal purposes) and Strive Masiyiwa opened up on attempt by the former government to abduct him.
The List…
Anyway, here’s a look at how the battle for readers played out over April’s 30 days
| Rank (previous rank) | Publication/Platform | Total Visits/Month | Pages/Visit | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (1 ) | Newsday.co.zw | 1.95M | 731 830 | 350 616 | 4.19 |
| 2 (3) | Herald.co.zw | 1.31M | 264 172 | 219 939 | 3.47 |
| 3 (4) | Bulawayo24.com | 908.03K | 109 330 | 46 743 | 4.84 |
| 4 (5) | zimeye.net | 1.09M | 232 394 | 25 859 | 3.72 |
| 5 (2) | newzimbabwe.com | 914.11M | 89 491 | 4 477 | 3.59 |
| 6 (7) | newsdzezimbabwe.co.uk | 893.17K | 61 523 | 7 829 | 3.72 |
| 7 (N/A) | nehandaradio.com | 629.51K | 417 216 | 119 269 | 2.50 |
| 8 (6) | Dailynews.co.zw | 702.36K | 170 299 | 190 156 | 3.20 |
| 9 (9) | iHarare.com | 526.73K | 140,635 | 6 804 | 4.07 |
| 10 (8) | chronicle.co.zw | 444.77K | 76,920 | 49 040 | 3.44 |
| 11 (14) | thestandard.co.zw | 376.71K | 149 508 | 35 513 | 4.41 |
| 12 (11) | Pindula.co.zw | 319.52K | 16 006 | 4 053 | 2.37 |
| 13 (13) | myzimbabwe.co.zw | 317.71K | 334 294 | 39 978 | 4.15 |
| 14 (12) | techzim.co.zw | 272.34K | 36 604 | 103 363 | 1.79 |
| 15 (10) | zimbabwesituation.com | 248.88K | 104 127 | 12 745 | 2.80 |
| 16 (15) | theindependent.co.zw | 186.22K | 33 736 | 50 443 | 4.39 |
| 17 (16) | sundaymail.co.zw | 150.84K | 86 922 | 95 919 | 3.10 |
| 18 (19) | soccer24.co.zw | 135.71K | 189 623 | 9 929 | 1.91 |
| 19 (N/A) | zimbabwe-today.com | 78.99K | 408 047 | 3 014 | 1.39 |
| 20 (18) | thezimbabwean.co | 60.60K | 40 964 | 8 556 | 1.67 |
| 20 | 263chat.com | N/A | 98 176 | 305 102 | N/A |
| 21 | zimbojam.com | N/A | 55 781 | 102 909 | N/A |
| 22 | *youthvillage.co.zw | N/A | 33 026 | 2 261 | N/A |
| 23 | technomag.co.zw | N/A | 23 343 | 8 078 | N/A |
| 24 | techunzipped.com | N/A | 23 123 | 2 792 | N/A |
| 25 | pazimbabwe.com | N/A | 9,229 | 215 | N/A |
| 26 | thezimtainment.co.zw | N/A | 9 731 | 3 922 | N/A |
| 27 | 3-mob.com | N/A | 8 750 | 14 545 | N/A |
| 28 | thefootballcult.com | N/A | 7 082 | 526 | N/A |
| 29 | creativeloop.co.zw | N/A | 2 698 | 1 601 | N/A |
New entries
There are two new entries in this list: Nehanda Radio and Zimbabwe Today. In the lists prior to this we had missed this entirely but fortunately one of the readers alerted us of these omissions in the comments section.
The reason why we missed quite a few and have been continuing to update this list is because it was a spontaneous list where we listed the entries we were thinking of from the top of our heads. So once again if we missed a site that is popular just get in the comments section and help us keep growing this list
Trends
Pages per visit have been steadily rising. Every entry – except the new entry of course- in the top 10 and almost throughout the entire list has seen the pages that viewers visit each time they are on the site rise. I’m not sure if this is because publishers are linking to other stories well in their articles or if its because the quality of journalism is rising, only readers can attest to that one.
Maybe’ it’s because of stories such as the legalization of Marijuana but that story was not covered on Techzim until recently but our views per visit also rose so it might not be that.
Disclaimer!
The statistics provided by similarweb (i.e. Monthly Visits and Pages/Visit ) are only estimates that can help inform readers that may want to advertise on these platforms but these are not the exact stats and if there are any errors for these stats it’s not on us. The statistics that we compile ourselves are in relation to Twitter followers and Facebook likes and if there is an error there, well, that’s on us.
[For the sites that have N/A under Total Visits and Pages/Visit, similarweb.com could not produce the required statistics. We proceeded to rank these using their popularity on Facebook. We chose FB over Twitter because it is used more widely in Zimbabwe and for most if not all sites on this list, their Facebook following is far larger than the corresponding Twitter fan base.]
Did FinGaz miss the list coz they have the worst teasers? I get they want to sell actual paper but eish, their website is currently just wasting cyber-real-estate.
Loool not because of teasers or anything of that sort, just slipped our minds when we were compiling. Thanks for this, we’ll be adding them to the list
Zimbuzz is the most popular entertainment website for me
Thanks for the feedback Tariro, we’ll defintely be adding that one to the list