{"id":4579,"date":"2008-07-24T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-24T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:16:00","slug":"sa-s-biggest-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/4579-sa-s-biggest-websites.html","title":{"rendered":"SA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently released statistics by the Online Publishers Association (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opa.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">OPA<\/a>) and the Website Association of South Africa (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasa.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">WASA<\/a>) sheds some light on the biggest websites in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest statistics News24 is still the most popular website in South Africa with 1 796 559 unique monthly visitors, followed by IOL with 971 046 and MSN South Africa with 892 697.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the top 10 is completed by Hotmail-ZA, Webmail, MWEB, 24.com, Vodacom4me, MyBroadband and BidorBuy.<\/p>\n<p>While News24 and IOL have dominated the local online news market for a long time, lower down the list a few battles are being fought.&nbsp; The most significant change here is that The Times has overtaken Mail &amp; Guardian Online to become the third largest news website in South Africa.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In the technology space MyBroadband remains the largest IT website, followed by Engineeringnews, ITWeb, IOL Technology, Tectonic and FMTech.<\/p>\n<p>A few of South Africa&rsquo;s largest websites, including ABSA, FNB, Standard Bank and Gumtree, are not members of either the OPA or WASA which makes an accurate assessment of their respective sizes difficult.<\/p>\n<p>It can however be assumed that most banking websites as well as Gumtree and MTN will fit comfortably into the top 20 biggest websites in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=128545\"><strong>Biggest website discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News24 still rules the roost, but lower down the battle hots up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}