The Top 10 Online News Providers in UAE

With the constant and somewhat aggressive integration of the Internet into our daily lives, online media became essential for movers, shakers and decision makers from every  segment of life. Printed media is fast going out of fashion, as costlier, non-ecco friendly  and harder for access source of information.

With UAE‘s  economy  described as  young, flexible and promising , the need of timely information updates  resulted in the development of many online newspapers and magazines. We have researched the  most popular in order to produce a list with the Top 10, according the independent Alexa ranking.

Founded in April 1996, Alexa Internet grew out of a vision of Web navigation that is intelligent and constantly improving with the participation of its users. Along the way Alexa has developed an installed based of millions of toolbars, one of the largest Web crawls and an infrastructure to process and serve massive amounts of data. For Internet users of Alexa has created products that have revolutionized Web navigation and intelligence. For developers this has resulted in a set of tools unprecedented in scope allowing whole new services to be created on the Alexa data and platform.

During the years, Alexa has built an unparalleled database of information about sites that includes statistics, related links and more, which combined together produce the totally independent Alexa Traffic Rank. According that  traffic ranker we  classified the most popular online news providers in UAE.

1.  Gulf News

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 5,654
• Traffic Rank in AE: 12
• Sites Linking In: 3,382

2.  AMEInfo

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 7,075
• Traffic Rank in AE: 84
• Sites Linking In: 3,684

3.  Arabian Business

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 8,875
• Traffic Rank in AE: 51
• Sites Linking In: 2,106

4.  Khaleej Times

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 13,431
• Traffic Rank in AE: 57
• Sites Linking In: 3,750

5.  Zawya

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 18,417
• Traffic Rank in AE: 249
• Sites Linking In: 1,673

6.  The National

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 21,851
• Traffic Rank in US: 18,501
• Sites Linking In: 3,314

7.  Al Ittihad

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 25,058
• Traffic Rank in AE: 92
• Sites Linking In: 1,030

8.  Al Bayan

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 36,626
• Traffic Rank in AE: 159
• Sites Linking In: 874

9.  WAM

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 60,984
• Traffic Rank in AE: 499
• Sites Linking In: 726

10.  Emirates Business 24/7

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 70,938
• Traffic Rank in AE: 464
• Sites Linking In: 166

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