A porn site ranks higher than Twitter and government portals like eCitizen and kra.go.ke

Alexa Internet, a web traffic analysis company and a subsidiary of Amazon has ranked a pornographic site at number 15 in Kenya among internet sites most frequented by Kenyans, as at March 7 this year.

It was only beaten by popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo, the country’s leading media sites, the betting site SportPesa and the online shopping platform Jumia.

In fact, the site was ranked higher than Twitter and the government’s portals eCitizen and kra.go.ke, frequented by many Kenyans processing official documents such as passports, identity cards and driving licences and filing tax returns and other services.

The popularity of pornography sites is also captured by Nendo, an African digital strategy firm, in its State of Mobile Data 2019 report, placing two pornography sites at positions five and eight, as at November 1, 2018.

Globally, adult websites occupy the 10th, 11th and 13th spots of the top 15 most visited websites in the world. This means Kenya has adult sites ranked higher than the global average. “In comparison to other East African Community countries, no other country had more sports betting or adult websites in its top 10 list of websites,” states the report.

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