VKontakte still the most popular in Ukraine website

The number of visits of the Ukrainian users decreased by 12-18%.

Social network Vkontakte at the end of may has remained the most visited Internet resource in Ukraine. This is evidenced by SimilarWeb.

Retain the leading positions and other resources from Russia — Odnoklassniki, Yandex, and Mail.ru. Their Ukrainian audience fell by 12-18%, according to Internet companies, says the high computer literacy in the country.

The traffic coming from Ukraine, decreased significantly after the entry into force of sanctions. So, the number of visits of the Ukrainian users of “Vkontakte” has decreased over the month by 15.37% in April. “Classmates” lost loss of 17.62% of Ukrainian traffic, but remained at the fourth position in the list of the most visited. The website Mail.ru fell in the top one position and now ranks eighth: his Ukrainian traffic decreased by 16.2%. Lost one place, moving from fifth to sixth place, and Yandex.ua whose traffic declined by 12.24%.

Full lock, as experts said from the very beginning, it was not possible technically, the ex-head of “Yandex” in Ukraine Sergey Petrenko.

“If the major ISPs have the technical ability, close access to fast (and not all), it is small — but only in Ukraine more than 6 thousand providers still did not do”— says Sergey Petrenko.

“Yandex.Navigator” June 7 was showing in Odessa, a six-point tube, that is, until now, users of the service enough to collect such data.

Data from SimilarWeb is also follows: the number of visits for example Yandex.ua from the U.S. increased by 246%, and the Netherlands — 126,6%. A growing number of users of Russian sites from other countries generally indicates the use of technologies of circumvention of the ban — proxy, VPN and proxy.

Recall that 61.2 per cent of respondents surveyed by the center of social researches “Sofia”, do not support the decision to block access to social networks “Odnoklassniki” and “Vkontakte”.

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