Internet4.01.2013

Top websites in South Africa

South African websites

The December 2012 Effective Measure statistics were recently unveiled, showing that News24 attracts the most unique visitors, followed by Howzit.MSN and IOL.

Effective Measure is the official traffic measurement partner of the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA), and provides accurate traffic statistics for South Africa’s top websites.

According to the December 2012 Effective Measure statistics, News24 attracted 2.7 million unique visitors, followed by Howzit.MSN with 2.5 million unique browsers and IOL with 1.8 million.

Supersport, which is the country’s premier sporting website, ranked fourth with 1.1 million unique browsers. MyBroadband was fifth, also with 1.1 million unique monthly browsers.

The following tables provide an overview of South Africa’s largest DMMA registered websites.

Total traffic
Name Unique browsers Page views
news24.com 2,713,887 34,823,787
howzit.msn.com 2,533,152 28,798,522
iol.co.za 1,766,258 15,973,064
supersport.com 1,148,790 12,287,530
mybroadband.co.za 1,131,877 6,016,682
za.yahoo.com 1,114,012 11,476,343
channel24.co.za 913,756 4,535,755
sport24.co.za 901,199 7,477,774
timeslive.co.za 860,592 5,545,734
mg.co.za 778,938 5,249,005
South African traffic
Name Unique browsers Page views
news24.com 1,866,685 28,578,199
howzit.msn.com 1,202,535 18,553,128
za.yahoo.com 1,029,337 10,949,710
iol.co.za 974,558 11,548,810
sport24.co.za 581,343 4,973,868
junkmail.co.za 569,971 12,018,910
channel24.co.za 558,509 2,990,804
mybroadband.co.za 520,172 4,282,974
autotrader.co.za 475,059 18,152,736
mg.co.za 447,514 3,421,998

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