Friday, May 5, 2017

Programming Languages and Frameworks used to build Top Nigeria Websites.

Nigeria websites are programmed using different languages and frameworks from Education, E-commerce, News, Music & Entertainment, Sports Betting & Updates and Banking are the top most popular websites in Nigeria. Some scale well but I believe scalability has to do with the code and the database structure, This are what most visited websites fail to implement which added to the bounce rate and reduce active user capacity. All this is due to the Developers and the maintenance team of the project. I have decide to take some time out and do a research on which framework / programming languages the most popular websites in Nigeria are using and how do they affect their performance and capacity. Let choose a couple of popular Websites in Nigeria we are going to be reviewing.

Considering the recent attacks on many Nigeria portals and creation of fake web portals, Most attacks happens when web server are brought to their knees by massive users, Some site will just stop responding to users requests. After looking at the statistics of this report shows that most traffic ready portals in Nigeria includes JAMB, NYSC e.t.c. Kudos to bet9ja for using ASP .NET for their website, That has brought lot of growth to the company, That is the reason why they are able handle huge traffic and their site load faster. This is the major reason why their daily pageview is outstanding.

Websites	Popularity / Unique Visitors. month	Front-End (Client Side)	Back-End (Server Side)	Database	Notes
bet9ja.com	2,057,220	Javascript	ASP .NET Framework	MSSQL	Sport Betting website
Naij.com	1,592,841	Javascript	PHP	MySQL	News Portal
Jumia.com.ng	371,813	Javascript	Nodejs	MySQL	Online Shopping Mall
Nairaland.com	589,095	Javascript	PHP	MySQL	Online Forum
Vanguardngr.com	515,110	JavaScript	PHP / JavaScript (NodeJs) ( Wordpress )	MySQL	News Portal
Lindaikejisblog.com	336,366	JavaScript	Java	BigData	News Blog
Punchng.com	300,894	JavaScript	PHP	MySQL	News Website
Naijaloaded.com.ng	137,147	JavaScript	PHP / JavaScript (NodeJs) ( Wordpress )	MySQL	News / Entertainment
Jamb.org.ng	77,718	JavaScript	ASP .NET Framework	MSSQL	Government / Education
Nysc.org.ng	40,238	JavaScript	ASP .NET Framework	MSSQL	Government / Education
Konga.com	110,736	JavaScript	PHP , JavaScript (Node.js)	MySQL	Online Shopping Mall
Gtbank.com	115,311	JavaScript	PHP / ASP .NET Framework	MSSQL / Oracle DB

It not a surprise that Nigerians love to bet and read News. If you have any website you will like to be added to the list you can drop it in the comments.

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