Google.ro, the Romanian version of the famous search engine, Facebook.com and Youtube.com are the top three most popular websites in Romania, according to Alexa traffic ranking. Google.com and Yahoo.com come next in the ranking.

The highest ranked Romanian website is that of online retailer eMAG.ro, which is also the largest online store in Romania by sales. eMAG.ro is the sixth most visited site in Romania. It is followed by OLX.ro, which is also an online commerce site, but it provides consumer-to-consumer services (like eBay). Both eMAG.ro and OLX.ro are controlled by South-African investment fund Naspers.

Wikipedia.org, the free online encyclopaedia, and Amazon.com, one of the largest online retailers in the world, come next. The top 10 is completed by tocmai.ro, which is also a classifieds website. The top news website is Gandul.info (on 13), which is an online newspaper owned by Mediafax Group, followed by Realitatea.net (on 14).

Alexa calculates the traffic rank of all websites in the world using a combination of average daily visitors and page views over the past month, which in this case was November.

See below the full top 20 most popular websites in Romania, according to Alexa (as of December 18, 2014):

1.       Google.ro – search engine (the Romanian version)
2.       Facebook.com – social network
3.       YouTube.com – video sharing website
4.       Google.com – search engine
5.       Yahoo.com – internet portal (email, search engine, news, etc.)
6.       eMAG.ro – largest online retailer in Romania
7.       OLX.ro – classifieds site
8.       Wikipedia.org – free encyclopaedia
9.       Amazon.com – online retailer
10.     Tocmai.ro – classifieds site
11.     Adcash.com – ad network
12.     Filelist.ro – file sharing site (torrents)
13.     Gandul.info – news website
14.     Realitatea.net – news website
15.     Wordpress.com – blogging platform
16.     Imdb.com – movie ratings, reviews
17.     Stirileprotv.ro – news website
18.     Hotnews.ro – news website
19.     Adevarul.ro – news website
20.     Okazii.ro – classifieds site

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