Portals likumi.lv and lvportals.lv were amongst the most visited sites in 2021 in Latvia. Also the entertainment site spoki.lv and the weather portal gismeteo.lv, while several sites entered the top only once last year. Throughout 2021, the news portal delfi.lv has maintained a stable leading position in Real Users from all devices together. Portal delfi.lv reached the largest audience in October last year, when it was visited by 882,000 Real Users. Constantly taking second position in the top, site inbox.lv also showed the highest number of visitors in October - 759,000 users from all devices together. It should be noted that among all the TOP 20 sites, inbox.lv has the highest number of page views - approximately 200 million page views per month on average. Almost all year round the sites of the TOP 5 remained unchanged and the previously mentioned top leaders were followed by the portals tvnet.lv, lsm.lv and jauns.lv.

Except for August, when the site went up to the fifth position, in the sixth place in the top of the total statistics of almost all 2021 was the portal la.lv, followed by the sites apollo.lv and skaties.lv. From January to March apollo.lv took the seventh position, then until by the end of the year exchanging places with the portal skaties.lv. Meanwhile, in January and February, the price comparison portal salidzini.lv took the ninth position in the top of the total statistics, but in January the portal kurpirkt.lv closed the TOP 10. After the successful start of the year, both portals left the gemiusAudience research and also the top. From February, the portal nra.lv ranked in the top ten, spent most of the year in the ninth position in the top. Meanwhile, in April portal 1188.lv joined the gemiusAudience research and the top 11th position, in May reaching 10th place among top sites, and remained it until December, reaching its largest audience – 405,000 users from all devices - in September.

Throughout the year, the weather portal gismeteo.lv was among the TOP 20 sites. Showing seasonal trends, in the summer months the site reached the highest number of visitors - from 294,000 users in June to the highest result of the year - 330,000 users in July. Also reaching the 11th position in top from June to August, in the last months of the year the site was replaced by the portal santa.lv. Meanwhile, in February and March, the eleventh most visited site in the top of the overall statistics was the legal act explanatory portal lvportals.lv, which took various positions in the second top ten throughout the year, but reached the highest number of Real Users in January - 357,000 visitors.

The entertainment portal spoki.lv was also in the top for all twelve months last year, closing the year as the twelfth most visited portal with the highest audience in January 2021, when the site was visited by 321,000 Real Users. Presenting the biggest number of visitors - 296,000 Real Users - in March and at the same time rising to the 13th position, the name of the legislative portal likumi.lv was among the twenty most visited websites all year.

Meanwhile, three sites took different positions in the second half of TOP 20 eleven times during the year – not getting into the top only in June, site vk.com reached its largest audience - 231,000 Real Users – in January, gradually decreasing to 166,000 in December. Also, eleven months between the top websites were news sites in Russian – bb.lv and lv.sputniknews.lv.

With the exception in October and November, the parent portal mammamuntetiem.lv ranked among the most visited sites throughout the year, reaching the highest number of visitors in February last year - 246,000 readers. Joining the top in May, the sports news site sportacentrs.com showed 204,000 users in August, which was the highest last year. In January, reaching the largest audience - 234,000 users – portal diena.lv was also among the top sites in February and March to return only in November.

It should be noted that several sited entered the top only few times last year - in April the TOP 20 was closed by the regional portal liepajniekiem.lv, which returned to the top for the second time in October, when reached 196,000 readers. In March the TOP 20 was closed by db.lv with 179,000 readers, but in July and In October, the website press.lv joined the top sites, reaching the largest audience last year - 189,000 users. Meanwhile, portal mixnews.lv entered the top with 138,000 users from all devices in June.

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