Top 15 Most-Visited Canadian sites

Vancouver’s Suite101.com published the first readership index of Canadian-owned websites today titled “Where The Online Readers Are“.  The Index was created to show which Canadian-owned websites get the most traffic and highlight what’s popular online. The inaugural January index shows that content-related sites dominate – ten of the fifteen highest traffic, Canadian-owned sites publish news and information.

  1. Metro Lyrics – 419 – Song Lyric Database
  2. Plenty of Fish – 459 – Dating Community
  3. Government of Canada – 597 – Government
  4. CBC – 1,352 – Content
  5. Suite101.com – 1,641 – Content
  6. Canoe.ca – 1,642 – Content
  7. Canada.com – 1,645 – Content
  8. The Weather Network – 1,650 – Content
  9. TD Canada Trust – 1,749 – Commerce: Banking
  10. Rogers Communications – 1,943 – Content
  11. Spintop Games – 2,229 – Commerce: Games
  12. The Toronto Star – 2,631 – Content
  13. The Globe and Mail – 2,720 – Content
  14. CTV – 2,756 – Content
  15. TSN – The Sports Network –  2,836 – Content

Interesting list. According to Suite101.com, the list was “inspired” by Techvibes very own Startup Indexes and is based on Alexa.com traffic rankings. To be included on the list, companies must be Canadian-owned. Sites with a US parent company, such as Google.ca or Amazon.ca, were not eligible.