Japanese universities' websites fail to generate much traffic

There is only one Japanese university in the top 100 rankings for web traffic. That is Keio U., at number 13. Keio is an elite private university in Tokyo.

Todai, Japan's top university, gets into the top 200 at 109th place.

I suspect this lack of 'buzz' for Japanese universities' websites is caused by two factors. One, most of their websites are mostly in Japanese, with the few English language pages usually under the sign, "Under construction." Two, the very people who can use Japanese-language content don't surf much from computers. That is to say, the Japanese typically target specific, specially written pages (EZ Web) from their mobile phones, and that is the limit of their web surfing.



http://www.4icu.org/top200/

Excerpted here is the top 100 Universities and Colleges in the world by 4icu.org Web Popularity Ranking. To see the full 200, go to the link above.

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States

2 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mexico

3 Harvard University
United States

4 University of California, Berkeley
United States

5 Cornell University
United States

6 Purdue University
United States

7 Yale University
United States

8 University of Cambridge
United Kingdom

9 Indiana University - System
United States

10 University of Oxford
United Kingdom

11 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China

12 National University of Singapore
Singapore

13 Keio University
Japan

14 Tsinghua University
China

15 Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russia

16 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Switzerland

17 The University of Melbourne
Australia

18 Cairo University
Egypt

19 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Brazil

20 Peking University
China

21 Institut Teknologi Bandung
Indonesia

22 The Australian National University
Australia

23 Indian Institute of Technology Madras
India

24 Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Germany

25 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
India

26 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Greece

27 Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi
Turkey

28 Université de Genève
Switzerland

29 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Switzerland

30 Fudan University
China

31 Gazi Üniversitesi
Turkey

32 Bilkent Üniversitesi
Turkey

33 Bogaziçi Üniversitesi
Turkey

34 Zhejiang University
China

35 Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
Turkey

36 Universität Zürich
Switzerland

37 Technische Universiteit Delft
Netherlands

38 Tampereen Teknillinen Yliopisto
Finland

39 Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Hungary

40 Xi’an Jiaotong University
China

41 Universidade de Coimbra
Portugal

42 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
India

43 Ankara Üniversitesi
Turkey

44 Université Catholique de Louvain
Belgium

45 Université de Lausanne
Switzerland

46 Dogu Akdeniz Üniversitesi
Cyprus

47 Ecole Normale Supérieure
France

48 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
India

49 University of California System
United States

50 Bahçesehir Üniversitesi
Turkey

51 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
France

52 Akdeniz Üniversitesi
Turkey

53 Közép-Európai Egyetem
Hungary

54 Dai hoc Quoc gia Thanh Pho Hô Chí Minh
Vietnam

55 Sveucilište u Zagrebu
Croatia

56 Stanford University
United States

57 Penn State University
United States

58 The University of Texas at Austin
United States

59 University of Michigan
United States

60 University of Washington
United States

61 University of Pennsylvania
United States

62 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States

63 University of California, Los Angeles
United States

64 University of Minnesota
United States

65 University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States

66 Columbia University in the City of New York
United States

67 Universidade de São Paulo
Brazil

68 University of Virginia
United States

69 University of Florida
United States

70 New York University
United States

71 Carnegie Mellon University
United States

72 The Ohio State University
United States

73 Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
Sweden

74 University of Toronto
Canada

75 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
United States

76 Universidade de Brasília
Brazil

77 University of Maryland
United States

78 University of Arizona
United States

79 Texas A&M University
United States

80 Universidad de La Rioja
Spain

81 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
United States

82 Princeton University
United States

83 University of Southern California
United States

84 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States

85 Michigan State University
United States

86 Duke University
United States

87 University of California, San Diego
United States

88 North Carolina State University
United States

89 University of California, Irvine
United States

90 The University of British Columbia
Canada

91 University of Chicago
United States

92 Anna University
India

93 The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

94 Johns Hopkins University
United States

95 National Taiwan University
Taiwan

96 University of California, Davis
United States

97 Arizona State University
United States

98 Freie Universität Berlin
Germany

99 Universidad de Sevilla
Spain

100 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Peru