It was just a matter of one week! The official web site of the Permanent Mission of    Sri Lanka has been ranked the most popular website of all the foreign Permanent Missions accredited to the United Nations Office in Geneva (Switzerland), according to Alexa Web Search Platform, up from its number two position last week.  

According to Alexa, a leading international statistic and web search engine which crawls all publicly available websites to record and analyze web usage, the website of the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva is now ranked number one of the most popular UN Mission website in Geneva. In reaching the top, Sri Lankan website has replaced the former number 1, the official website of the Permanent Mission of Algeria. The other top 10 official web sites of the Permanent Missions in Geneva which have placed after  Sri Lanka are Algeria, Italy, Myanmar, Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Kazakhstan, United States, Iran, Trinidad and Tobago and Afghanistan.

The ranking is based on the number of page views and number of users the websites receive. According to Alexa, the Sri Lanka Mission’s website has been ranked first in a short-listed 60 Geneva Mission websites. Geneva is home to more than 160 Permanent Missions to the United Nations and other International Organizations.