Soceity of Ethiopian Web Site Developers (SEWD) has released its annual survey of top Ethiopian web sites. See the result below.
Ethiopian Web site of the Year 2008 Result
ታላቁ የ2001 ዓ.ም የኢትዮጵያ ድህረ ገፆች ውድድር ውጤት
1. Best Design and Look
1. Ethiopian Review
2. EthioTube.net
3. Abugidainfo.com
2. Originally News and Content
1. Ethiopian Review
2. Abugidainfo.com
3. Aiga forum
3.Community Participation (blog, Social network, forum and comment)
1. Ethiopian Review
2. Cyberethiopia.com
3. EthioTube.net
4. Music, Video
1. EthioTube.net
2. Ethiopian Review
3. Addis Live
5. Informative (Business Directory, 411 and Other info)
1. Ethiopian Review
2. Jimma Times
3. Addis Fortune
6. Multilingual Content (Amharic, Oromogna, Tigrigna, Somali & Arabic)
1. Ethiopian Review
2. Jimmatimes.com
3. Walta Info
7. Alexa Web site traffic ranking
1. Nazret.com (not a fair comparison since Nazret is allowed in Ethiopia)
2. Ethiopian Review (blocked in Ethiopia)
3. Ethiomedia.com (blocked in Ethiopia)
8. 2008 Sewd Achievement Award.
1. Daniel Yacob founder of Ge’ez Frontier Foundation
2. Kitaw Yayehyirad Founder and Director General of Cyber Ethiopia.net
Overall Ethiopian Web Site of of the Year winners
1st Ethiopian Review
2nd EthioTube.net
3rd JimmaTimes.com
Note from ER Editor:
Ethiopian Review would like to thank SEWD for conducting this annual survey. ER is not only the best quality Ethiopian web site, according to your survey, but also the most visited, according to Statbrain.com, which takes into account several statistic tools, including alexa.com. Nazret.com claims to be the most visited site and shows off figures by alexa.com, but Statbrain.com tells a different story. Ethiopian Review is the most visited site despite being blocked in Ethiopia, unlike Nazret.com, which is accessible in Ethiopia. The only reason Nazret.com is even in a competition with EthiopianReview.com because Nazret.com is not blocked in Ethiopia.