The website World Actuality, which some days ago listed Vietnamese beauty Ngo Thanh Van among its Top 10 Most Beautiful Women in the World 2013, ranks 24,241 among websites around the world according to Alexa’s listing.

The website’s choice of Van, a model-singer-actress, has caused quite a stir among local netizens and even took the beauty by surprise. Van landed in 10th place of the website’s 50 Most Beautiful Women in the World 2013.

Topping the Top 10 list is Bosnian model Idda Van Munster (Aida Dapo), followed by American actress Megan Fox, Russian supermodel Irina Shayk, Romanian beauty Madalina Ghenea, and Indian beauty queen Priyanka Chopra, who was crowned Miss World in 2000.

“Ngo Thanh Van is successful in everything she does and her beauty is as intense as it is pure,” wrote World Actuality about the Vietnamese beauty.

However, few know about World Actuality or the criteria with which it selected the beauties on the list.

According to web searching and assessing tools, World Actuality appeared on the Internet since Dec 2012 but the domain name world-actuality.com wasn’t registered until Mar 2013.

Alexa shows that the website was only recently visited by more than a few visitors, the number of which suddenly soared in the past few days. Most of its viewers are from the US, India, the UK, Canada and Serbia. According to Google, World Actuality’s pageRank is a mere 1/10.

Several other web ranking and assessing tools also rank World Actuality higher than 24,000.

The Top 50 Most Beautiful Women in the World 2013 is currently second of the website’s most viewed articles and has earned over 100,000 views.

In their introduction, World Actuality writes that a number of their articles are “created by independent filmmakers who depend on sites like ours to get their information to the public. Different articles create different reactions among different people. There will be aspects of the articles and films to which you may disagree or agree.”

Van, also known as Veronica Ngo or NTV virus, was born in Vietnam. At 16, she and her family migrated to Norway.

Van made her debut in Vietnam in 2000 when she placed as second runner up in a local beauty pageant. Her career as a dancer, model, singer, and actress soon took off in her home country.

In 2004, Van was among the few Vietnamese actors to shine in international film. She starred in the musical “Rouge,” jointly produced by MTV Asia and Singapore’s MediaCorp. The 14-episode series was aired in Asia and Australia.