According to Alexa.com (which are well known for ranking websites) below are the top 50 most visited websites by Canadians.
Interestingly…
- Amazon.com is on the list but Amazon.ca isn’t
- TD Canada Trust is the only bank on the list
- Future Shop is the only major electronics store on the list
- Friendster and AdultFinder are both on the list.. hmmm.. I wonder if that means anything?
- There are 2 Asian websites on this list. Are they Canadian-asian websites? Can someone please let us know what these websites are about?
- The government’s website is at number 14! Does that indicate that our government is more or less Bureaucratic than before?
1 Google.ca
2 Yahoo!
3 Microsoft Network (MSN)
4 Google
5 YouTube
6 Windows Live
7 Thefacebook
8 Myspace
9 WikiPedia
10 Msn.ca
11 EBay Canada
12 EBay
13 Blogger.com
14 Government of Canada
15 Microsoft Corporation
16 Craigslist.org
17 The Internet Movie Database
18 CNN – Cable News Network
19 Megaupload
20 Passport.net
21 Amazon.com
22 Flickr
23 Digg
24 Canada.com
25 MLS Online
26 Go
27 BBC Newsline Ticker
28 Plenty of Fish 100% Free online dating site
29 Hi5.com
30 CBC Television
31 Future Shop Canada
32 StatCounter.com
33 Photobucket image hosting and photo sharing
34 About
35 Apple Computer, Inc. Apple changed so that our Lazy Canadian is happy 😉
36 The Weather Network
37 Theglobeandmail.com
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39 NHL.com
40 Workopolis.com
41 TD Canada Trust
42 Orkut.com
43 Digital Point Solutions
44 Friendster
45 LiveJournal.com
46 Kijiji
47 Reference.com
48 6park.com
49 新浪新闻ä¸å¿ƒ
50 Adult Friendfinder
eBay didn’t even make it to the top ten? The 2 asian websites are Chinese websites, I guess Canadian Cantonese/Chinese likes to frequent these sites.
Technically, Apple is no longer “Apple Computer, Inc.” They’re just “Apple, Inc.”
or.. “Apple.”
Yes, I nitpick. Just sayin’.
ummm….. nice list. but where’s my site?
also, no cnn.com?
WHAT??? NO SMARTCANUCKS?????
Lazy Canadian, I changed it just for you dude 🙂
mike, your site is ranked 4,834,190 internationally 😛
mike, CNN is number 18
frugiedh lol, I can’t even compete with these big guys. But thanks for the encouragement 🙂
friendster is like myspace but i think its more popular in asia than north america
you mean Canada……or possibly ” we the north ”
The two Chinese Sites seems to be based from mainland China, one is a news headline site, and the other has more Chinese literature reading with news articles as well.
#38 – wenxuecity.com is a Chinese community portal web site which provides oversea Chinese with online resources such as breaking news, forums, blogs, literature etc. I heard this web site was blocked and not accessible from mainland China.
#49 – Sina.com.cn is also a Chinese portal web site.
To my understanding, wenxuecity.com has freedom for its content posting and most of oversea Chinese readers but Sina.com.cn is under control of the government of China.
Ah, very nice. Thanks for the update. 😉
The newswebsite is http://www.sina.com It is one of the largest chinese news website. It is like yahoo here. It is also a public trading company.
I’m a Canadian Chinese but I never go to that 2 Chinese websites. Those 2 websites look like they are tagetted to the people from Mainland China.
I’m Canadian Chinese too. I visited that 2 Chinese websites occasionally. I also like reading and writing blogs on millionaire site. It’s a good place for meeting successful friends and sharing experience with them.
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38 æ–‡å¦åŸŽ http://www.wenxuecity.com means Literature City. It’s the No.1 most visited website by overseas Chinese from mainland China. It covers uncensored news because its servers are hosted outside China (in the States?). (However, it might be blocked by the Great FireWall so Chinese in China are unlikely able to view it.) It also has a huge online forum/bbs with millions of Chinese discussing everything from parenting to politics.
49 新浪新闻ä¸å¿ƒ http://news.sina.com.cn is one of the largest Chinese Portal sites like Yahoo News or Google News. It’s based in mainland China (means censored content).
Both of the two sites above are in simplified Chinese (used in mainland China and Singapore) instead of traditional Chinese (used in HongKong and Taiwan).
48 http://www.6park.com is also a Chinese website catering overseas Chinese specifically (somewhat like 38 æ–‡å¦åŸŽ http://www.wenxuecity.com ). However, I’ve never heard of it before. Just realized it’s a simplified Chinese site when I clicked on it a minute ago.
check out the source of this articel – http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=CA&ts_mode=country&lang=none
and take a look at 33. and 44. 😉 !!
I’m a Canadian that visits Amazon.com much more frequently than Amazon.ca. That’s because many presumably US-based sites link to Amazon.com when they reference a book title.
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http://www.jobbank.gc.ca is the first site I go to every day…. still not helping.
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I’d think the Weather Network would be in the top 10! Given all the non-seasonal weather that finds its way across Canada.
Also, there are many international students at the Canadian secondary or post-secondary levels that are from China. It would make sense that a couple of portals from China would rate on the list–to lessen homesickness or to find news without having to worry about language issues.
Same here Eric, you should also try jobs.gc.ca
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What I found is that those website are not the most visited website. They are the websites with the most different high numbers of IP accessing them in Canada. (IP are “digital” signature that users use, show and leave when they access a website. Even with dynamic IP, there is still an attached static IP with it. Unless a user use some specific methods to change his IP, one access point to the internet means one single IP.)
The real top 100 of the most VISITED website in Canada is from one like this : http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites?c=CA&submit=Refresh
Unlike the website that only count the accessed IP, there are some website that take the information even further with the number of time those IP accessed each website. On top of that, the access thought other other browser are rarely taken into account. (an example : Weather cast and news applications.)
A funny thing is that, in Canada, the most visited website is a ISO searching engine. (ISO are pure digital copy of any data disks like CDs and DVDs)
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wut. facebook? needs to be updated. 😐
Very Surprised to see Facebook and youtube at this position.
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