MANILA, Philippines - GMANetwork.com is the No. 1 local website in the Philippines. According to the latest Alexa rankings, as of Sept. 16, GMANetwork.com is the sixth most-visited website in the country, just behind global online giants such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Yahoo, and is the only Philippine website in the Top 10.
This is consistent with results from another metrics provider, Effective Measure (EM). According to partial September (Sept. 1 to 13) data from EM, GMA’s online portal (www.gmanetwork.com) remained the top website in the Philippines with pageviews reaching over 108 million. The portal was also the No. 1 website in August with over 228 million pageviews.
GMA News Online (www.gmanetwork.com/news) and the GMA Entertainment website (www.gmanetwork.com/entertainment) carried on being the top choice for news and entertainment content online as both websites showed significant increase in pageviews during the covered period. Both sustained their leads over competition.
GMA News Online (www.gmanetwork.com/news) drove the increase in traffic for the portal and almost doubled its pageviews since the site launched its new, sleeker, more mobile-friendly interface in August.
GMANetwork.com Entertainment also beat its counterpart, with Eat, Bulaga’s Kalyeserye featuring the AlDub love team of Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza further propelled the surge in pageviews, becoming one of the most sought-after content in the portal. There was also a high interest in issues related to traffic and the Bureau of Customs’ rules on balikbayan boxes.
GMA Network’s social media sites also registered positive growth with the network’s Facebook fanbase totalling 6.5 million, while amassing over 502,000 followers on Twitter and 161,000 followers on Instagram.
Meanwhile, GMA News is followed by 3.3 million users on Twitter by the end of August, remaining the most followed news organization in the country. Its Facebook page has reached 5.4 million likes and its Instagram page has gained over 51,000 followers. It is also the most followed news organization on Viber’s Public Chat with more than 140,000 followers.