The internet has helped the Indian community easily access anything online, including knowledge, online shopping, and finance, among others.
With a population of over 1.4 Billion people, over 64% of India’s population now has internet access.
The web world is vigorously growing daily with almost unlimited websites, including some Indian-based websites. According to researchers, there are more than 1 billion websites on the internet, and statistics suggest that the digital population is currently above 4 billion.
To date, many websites and applications are being developed around the globe. These apps and websites are of different categories and compete with each other for rankings. They are categorized according to demographics.
There are many popular websites in India, but in a country with over 1 billion people, which website receives the highest traffic from Indian internet users? In today’s article, we will discuss some popular websites in India that users in India often visit.
Note that international websites rank high in most countries, like google.com, facebook.com, yourtube.com, instagram.com,amazon.in,twitter.com, wikipedia.org, etc. However, in this article, we are only going to focus on Indian-based websites which serve mostly the Indian community or any other User in India.
This is a list of some of India’s top most popular websites.
#1. Indiatimes
#2. Flipkart
#3. IRCTC
#4. HDFC Bank
#5. REDIFF
#6. ICICI Bank
#7. Yatra
#8. IncredibleIndia
#9. NDTV
#10. Naukri
#1. Indiatimes
Indiatimes.com is an English medium daily newspaper website that The Times Group owns. This website is one of the most surfed websites in India. It focuses on news, articles, stories, and videos on entertainment, the latest lifestyle, and culture.
It was founded in the year 1838 by Indu Jain, Samir Jain, and Raju Jain as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. The name was changed in 1861 to The Times of India. Indiatimes is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and the world’s world’s largest-selling English language daily.
The OLD LADY of Bori Bunder is its nickname because it is the oldest English-language newspaper in India and the second-oldest Indian newspaper in circulation.
Type: Daily newspaper
Owners: The Times Group
Publisher: Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
Founded: 3 November 1838 (183 years)
Language: English
Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
ISSN: 0971-8257
OCLC number: 23379369
Website: timesofindia.inidatimes.com
#2. Flipkart
Flipkart is an eCommerce company based in India with its headquarters in Bangalore. The company is incorporated in Singapore as a private limited company.
It is India’s best website for buying products such as Electronics, Books, Clothes, and Accessories.
The company recently launched its own product range under the name DigiFlip.
Initially, the company focused on online book sales and later expanded into other products such as consumer electronics, fashion, home essentials, groceries, and lifestyle products. Flipkart is one of India’s highest-earning online shopping sites.
Type: Private, subsidiary
Industry: eCommerce
Founded: 2007 (15 years ago)
Headquarters: Bangalore, Karnataka, India (operational HQ) Singapore (legal domicile)
Services: online shopping
Owner: Walmart (72%), Tencent (5.3%), Tiger Global (4.1%), Binny Bansal (2.4%), CPPIB (2.2%), SoftBank Group (1.4%), QIA (1.3%), Microsoft (1.2%), Accel (1.1%) and others
Website: www.flipkart.com
#3. IRCTC
IRCTC, which stands for Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Indian railways. It offers ticketing, catering, and tourism services for the Indian Railways.
The IRCTC was established on 27 September 1999. On 31 December 2020, IRCTC launched its new upgraded e-ticketing website and mobile App for easier booking of online railway Tickets.
Type: Subsidiary of Indian Railways
Industry: Railways
Founded: 27th September 1999 (23 years ago)
Headquarters: New Delhi
Services: online ticketing, catering, tourism, and hospitality services.
Owner: Indian Railways, Ministry of Railways, and The Government of India.
Website: www.irctc.com , www.irctc.co.in .
#4. HDFC Bank
Hdfcbank.com is a Personal Banking Service from HDFC Bank. Some of the personal banking services offered include savings and current accounts. It is an Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai.
HDFC mainly provides products and services like wholesale banking, retail banking, treasury, auto loans, loans against property, durable consumer loans, lifestyle loans, and credit cards.
On April 4, 2022, HDFC Bank merged with HDFC limited.
In 2022 the Bank was awarded as the best Bank in India during Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2022.
Type: Subsidiary of Housing Development Finance Corporation
Industry: Financial services
Founded: August 1994 (28 years ago)
Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Products: Credit cards, Consumer banking, Commercial banking, Finance and Insurance, Investment banking, Mortgage loans, Private banking, Private Equity, and Wealth management.
Owner: Housing Development Finance Corporation.
Website: www.hdfcbank.com
#5. REDIFF
Rediff.com is an Indian news, information, entertainment, and shopping web portal headquartered in Mumbai. Its offices are in Bangalore, New Delhi, and New York City.
it was the first website domain name registered in India in 1996. It is also one of India’s earliest web portals and email providers.
Type of business: Public Company
Type of site: Web portal
Founded: 1996 (26 years ago)
Headquarters: Mumbai India
Industry: Internet.
Website: www.rediff.com
#6. ICICI Bank
Icicibank.com is an Indian private development finance institution headquartered in Mumbai. This is one of the biggest banks in India, along with the State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, and Bank of Baroda.
The bank offers several banking products and financial services for corporate and retail customers through various delivery channels and specialized subsidiaries in investment banking, life, and non-life insurance, venture capital, and asset management.
Type: Private Development Finance Institution
Industry: Financial services
Founded: 5 January 1994 (28 years ago)
Product: Banking, commodities, credit cards, equities trading, insurance, investment management, mortgage loans, mutual funds, private equity, risk management, wealth management, asset management.
Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Website: www.icicibank.com
#7. Yatra
Yatra.com is an Indian online travel agency and a travel search engine which is based in Gurugram, Haryana. It was founded in August 2006 by Dhruv Shringi, Manish Amin, and Sabina Chopra.
Type: Public
Industry: Online travel agency
Founded: 1 August 2006 (16 years ago)
Founders: Dhruv Shringi (CEO), Manish Amin (CIO), and Sabina Chopra (COO- Corporate Hotels)
Headquarters: Gurugram, Haryana, India.
Products: Flights, hotels, holidays, trains, buses.
Website: www.yatra.com
#8. Incredible India
Incredible India is the name of an international tourism campaign maintained by the government of India since 2002 to promote tourism in the country.
It is a tagline of Indian Tourism. The Indian travel industry analysts and tour operators greatly appreciate the high standards of the Incredible India campaign.
Type: Public
Launched: 2002 (20 years ago)
Website: www.incredibleindia.org
#9. NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publications. It is one of India’s top broadcasters, with offices and studios across the country.
NDTV is a legacy brand that pioneered independent news broadcasting in India. It is credited for being the first to have a 24/7 news and lifestyle channel in the country.
It has two channels which are NDTV India and NDTV 24/7. NDTV, founded in 1984, began as a production house for new segments and later transitioned into India’s first independent news network.
Type: Public
Industry: Mass Media
Founders: Prannoy Roy, Radhika Roy
Products: Broadcasting Web portals
Headquarters: New Delhi, India
Website: www.ndtv.com
#10. Naukri
Naukri.com is an employment website operating in India and the Middle East. It was founded in March 1997 by an Indian businessman Sanjeev Bikhchandani.
This is the largest employment website in India currently. In 2020, Naukri.com won the ET Iconic Brands of India 2020 Award and received Awards and recognition in the past years.
The company launched Blackberry, Android, and iPhone mobile apps in 2012.
The company reportedly received 23% of its traffic from mobile users in the following year (2013).
Type: Job search engine
Founded: March 1997 (25 years)
Headquarters: Noida, India
Founder: Sanjeev Bikhchandani
Industry: Internet
Products: Resume Database, Job Postings, Branding, e-Apps, Career Site Manager, Cloud Products.
Services: Online Employment
Website: www.naukri.com
Conclusion
With the growth of the number of people accessing the internet and the increasing number of websites, the top-used websites keep changing from time to time.
The most used websites in 2019 may be different from the sites we are using in 2022. The ranking of websites is mostly determined by the visitors it gets per month and what keeps them engaged.
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