Most Popular Websites in South Africa

Alexa.com is a web tracking and ranking company that monitors traffic on websites worldwide. Its traffic rankings give a rough estimate of which sites are most popular on the world wide web.

These are the most visited sites by South Africans(as of 05/05/2008) according to the web ranking company , Alexa.com.

1. Google.co.za - The local URL for Google Search Engine

2. Facebook.com - Social Networking.

3. Google.com - again

4. Yahoo!

5. YouTube - Video Sharing

6. Windows Live - Microsoft Search Engine

7. Wikipedia - Online Encyclopedia.

8. Microsoft Network (MSN) - Portal(!! Are people actually using this, or is it because MSN.com is automatically set to be the homepage of Explorer).

9. Blogger.com - Blogging…..

10. news24.com -News site owned by local company Naspers (Only locally based Website in the top ten).

To view the current rankings visit Alexa : Here


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One Response to “Most Popular Websites in South Africa”

  1. Arné Says:

    Well, regarding the MSN portal, I reckon it is because alot of people never change their home page away from MSN, so I guess your assumption is right there, for one thing I don’t visit it, it is always too darn slow.

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