{"id":575064,"date":"2024-12-11T13:56:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=575064"},"modified":"2024-12-11T13:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:56:40","slug":"mybroadband-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/575064-mybroadband-in-2024.html","title":{"rendered":"MyBroadband in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the last twelve months, 27 million South Africans visited MyBroadband, and we served 140 million pages to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put another way, nearly all South Africans who own a laptop or smartphone visited MyBroadband in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MyBroadband is South Africa&#8217;s largest technology publication and is a window into the country&#8217;s ICT industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the first website many IT executives visit when they start their day and the last one they close before bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the most influential ICT platform in South Africa, and it informs the purchasing decisions of IT decision-makers around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024 was a standout year for MyBroadband. It grew its readership by 47% and significantly improved its South African ICT market coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MyBroadband&#8217;s popular technology show, What&#8217;s Next with Aki Anastasiou, hit an impressive 6 million views, cementing its position as South Africa&#8217;s leading technology podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also launched South Africa&#8217;s largest-ever voice network quality testing project in partnership with Keysight distributor Coral-i.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 15 May and 4 July, MyBroadband Insights covered over 10,000 kilometres, made over 38,000 calls, and recorded over 633 hours of call data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It revealed that Vodacom, Telkom, and MTN had exceptional network quality, exceeding what you would experience in most first-world countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We performed numerous other unique experiments, including testing Wi-Fi speeds at top shopping malls and fast-food franchises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We tested using Bitcoin to buy products at Pick n Pay, used Starlink in remote areas to test its performance, and conducted many online shopping tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We continued our industry-leading mobile data network tests and ranked South Africa&#8217;s ISPs and fibre operators based on customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MyBroadband&#8217;s forum community remained the largest and most active online group in South Africa&#8217;s ICT market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform is approaching 18 million posts and continues to serve as a valuable source of information and IT support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The table below provides an overview of MyBroadband in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Measure<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Data<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>South African readership<\/td><td>27 million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Page views<\/td><td>140 million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Age of most visitors<\/td><td>25 to 54<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Most popular browser<\/td><td>Chrome<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Most popular OSs<\/td><td>Android, Windows, iOS, and Mac<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Number of Linux users<\/td><td>193,000<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last twelve months, 27 million South Africans visited MyBroadband, and we served 140 million pages to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":480067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[42,521,109,41],"class_list":["post-575064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-mtn","tag-mybroadband","tag-telkom","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575064"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575174,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575064\/revisions\/575174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}