{"id":8882,"date":"2017-03-30T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T08:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/?p=8882"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:35:19","slug":"south-africas-10-visited-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/interesting\/south-africas-10-visited-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s 10 Most Visited Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conversation around browsing tendencies is never a dull moment around the office. It brings about much debate, laughter, head shakes, facial expressions that we associate with the confused emoji, and most importantly it leaves us wondering about what our colleagues get up to after hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/\">Alexa\u2019s<\/a> traffic estimates, which is gathered from a global traffic panel and directly from consented sites, found that South Africans are ever-increasingly making the shift toward using local websites more often, and using the Internet as a major source for convenient banking, shopping and education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*The list extracts the top 10 South Africa-based websites that appeared on the list. To see the full list click <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/topsites\/countries\/ZA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8883 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Artboard-1-1024x522.jpg\" alt=\"Artboard 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Artboard-1-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Artboard-1-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Artboard-1-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Artboard-1-613x313.jpg 613w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Artboard-1-840x428.jpg 840w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Artboard-1-400x204.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Artboard-1-60x31.jpg 60w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Artboard-1-680x347.jpg 680w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Artboard-1.jpg 1059w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><i><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>All stats used were taken directly from Alexa and is subject to change.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Founded in 1996, Alexa calculates rankings on a proprietary methodology that combines a site&#8217;s estimated average of daily unique visitors and its estimated number of page views over the past 3 months.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conversation around browsing tendencies is never a dull moment around the office. 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According to Alexa\u2019s traffic estimates, which is gathered from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":8895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blogcover3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdAWxt-2jg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8900,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions\/8900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}