South Africa’s top websites and mobile sites
It is no secret that South Africans like sport and politics, and when looking at the latest Nielsen Online statistics for South Africa one can see that the Internet does indeed mimic real-life.
According to the February 2011 Nielsen Online total traffic ranking report,
News24 is the largest South African website, followed by Howzit MSN Live and
SuperSport.
When it comes to mobile websites the tables are turned. Here Supersport
Mobile reins supreme, followed by News24 Mobile and Junkmail.
It should be noted that the Nielsen Online statistics only incorporates South
African websites registered with the DMMA, and that international sites such as
Google, Facebook and Youtube do not feature on this list.
According to Alexa, the most popular website among South African Internet
users is Google, followed by Facebook and YouTube. The top 10 is completed by
Yahoo!, WikiPedia, Twitter, Blogger, Gumtree, News24 and LinkedIn.
Biggest South
African websites
The following table provides an overview of the most popular websites in
South Africa according to Nielsen Online stats.
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| Website | Unique Visitors |
Mobile Website |
Unique Visitors |
| News24 | 3,3,357,801 | SuperSport Mobi |
1,894,886 |
| Howzit MSN Live |
2,990,152 | News24 Mobi | 553,666 |
| SuperSport.com | 2,751,143 | Junk Mail Mobile |
390,204 |
| IOL | 1,780,923 | M.iol.co.za | 270,571 |
| Football365 | 1,457,240 | Soccer Laduma Mobile |
255,196 |
| Windows Live Hotmail |
1,385,361 | JobMail Mobile | 213,348 |
| Times LIVE | 1,222,718 | Zoopy Mobile | 145,398 |
| Junkmail | 1,203,734 | Webmail Mobi | 141,973 |
| Webmail | 916,409 | Times Mobile | 117,081 |
| MWEB | 887,627 | MyBroadband Mobile |
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Hi,
Do you know if the figures quoted are unique visitors per month, and, if so, are the results an average of the past year, or just the highest monthly figure?
Thanks
Tom
Hi,
Do you know if the figures quoted are per month, and if so are they an average over the past year.
Thanks
Tom