The most popular Singapore websites

It says something about Singapore and its mainstream media that the most visited Singapore website is not a news or an education site but a bank. DBS Bank, owned by the Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings, is the most visited Singapore website, according to Alexa, the web information company.

Even a few Singapore bloggers are doing better than the mainstream media by getting into the Technorati top 100 list.

Singapore Entrepreneurs is the most popular Singapore blog, according to Technorati. It ranks 37th on Technorati’s top 100 list of blogs, based on the number of fans (451). There’s no Singapore blog on the Technorati top 100 list based on authority, or the number of links to a blog.

I must add these were the rankings when I visited Alexa and Technorati half an hour ago. The rankings can and do change often.

No joy for The Straits Times, Business Times, The New Paper and Today

I checked the two sites today because of a Straits Times Online report about a blog war between Xiaxue and another Singapore woman blogger. Xiaxue gets 50,000 visitors — or did it say “hits? — a day, said the Straits Times, and the other woman 30,000 a day. Hugely impressed, I moseyed over to Alexa. I am not sure how much weightage we should give to its figures. But here are its figures for Singapore. And it’s bad news for the local media.

Stomp, the Straits Times interactive portal, ranks 68th on the list. Straits Times Online doesn’t even come in the top 100, nor do the other two Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) English newspapers: Business Times and The New Paper. But Asia One, the other SPH site, ranks 61st.

The most popular Singapore news site is Channel NewsAsia, ranked 55th. Its MediaCorp stablemate, the freesheet Today, is nowhere in the top 100.

The most visited education site is the Ministry of Education, in 47th place, followed by the National University of Singapore, in 51st. They are separated by the Internet Movie Database (48th), Pornhub.com (49th) and Streetdirectory.com (50th). Nanyang Technological University is 64th.

The most visited Singapore site is DBS Bank, at 17th spot.