Other Russian sites also significantly worsened their performance.
Prior to the sanctions, daily attendance Vkontakte in Ukraine amounted to an average of 10.1 million visits. May 20, the Ukrainian Internet users visited a social network of 6.75 million times.
Social network Odnoklassniki (ok.ru) lost an average of 1.67 million visits from 4.64 million
The attendance of the Russian Internet portal yandex.ua has declined by about 2 million visits from 6 million
Russian Internet portal mail.ru missed 1.22 million visits, with a total average amount of 4.62 million
According to the analyst of the marketing Department in SimilarWeb Paul Tuchynska, the data presented in the majority of cases take into account visitors from Ukraine, who came on blocked Internet resource via VPN.
“If the user originally went to the Internet not through VPN, what usually happens, we see the country-the original,” says Tuchynska.
It is also noted that not all Internet providers of Ukraine, including large ones, started blocking Russian sites.
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