{"id":16722,"date":"2012-06-28T15:06:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=16722"},"modified":"2012-06-28T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:13:22","slug":"sa-dominates-web-hosting-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/16722\/sa-dominates-web-hosting-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"SA dominates web hosting in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa and Egypt together account for 80 of the top 100 websites hosted in Africa, according to a recent report<\/a> from Pingdom, a company that focuses on uptime monitoring.<\/p>\n

However, although 34 countries in Africa host one or more sites that rank in the top million globally, only 2,670 (or 0.27%) of the world\u2019s top million sites are hosted in Africa.<\/p>\n

Of these, South African accounts for over 69% (1,852) of the sites in the top million, with Egypt in second place at over 10% (276).<\/p>\n

Out of the world\u2019s top 10,000 sites, only 33 are hosted in Africa, and among the top 100,000 sites, 250 are hosted in Africa.<\/p>\n

Pingdom explained that the data was collected from 6\u20138 June 2012, with a script developed in-house that scanned 945,472 out of Alexa\u2019s top 1 million sites. The remaining sites failed for various reasons.<\/p>\n

The top 100 sites hosted in Africa were identified and each of those sites were checked again before publication, Pingdom said.<\/p>\n

In the blog post detailing their results, Pingdom pointed out that web hosting is a \u201cconstantly moving target\u201d and the location from where a particular site is hosted may have changed by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

The following graph from Pingdom shows the breakdown of where you can find the top 100 sites hosted in Africa.<\/p>\n

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Top 100 websites hosted in Africa (countries) – Pingdom<\/p><\/div>\n

A subset of Pingdom\u2019s table of the top 100 websites<\/a> hosted in Africa is reproduced below, showing the top 20. The full table can be found on the \u201cRoyal Pingdom\u201d blog.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Top 20 websites hosted in Africa according to Pingdom<\/caption>\n
Rank<\/th>\nAlexa rank<\/th>\nURL<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\n646<\/td>\nmasrawy.com<\/td>\nEgypt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n968<\/td>\nahram.org.eg<\/td>\nEgypt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n1321<\/td>\nnews24.com<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n1339<\/td>\nbidorbuy.co.za<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n1867<\/td>\nyallakora.com<\/td>\nEgypt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n2076<\/td>\nfnb.co.za<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n2359<\/td>\nstandardbank.co.za<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n2436<\/td>\npichunter.com<\/td>\nSeychelles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n2841<\/td>\nabsa.co.za<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n3087<\/td>\nnovamov.com<\/td>\nSeychelles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\n3151<\/td>\ncliphunter.com<\/td>\nSeychelles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\n3252<\/td>\niol.co.za<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n3772<\/td>\nelfagr.org<\/td>\nEgypt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\n4675<\/td>\nmybroadband.co.za<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\n4869<\/td>\nvideoweed.es<\/td>\nSeychelles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\n4937<\/td>\negynews.net<\/td>\nEgypt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\n5485<\/td>\nmweb.co.za<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\n5718<\/td>\nsupersport.com<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\n6287<\/td>\njunkmail.co.za<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\n6766<\/td>\nkalahari.com<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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South Africa and Egypt together account for 80 of the top 100 websites hosted in Africa, according to a recent report from Pingdom, a company that focuses on uptime monitoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[26,2735,3338],"class_list":["post-16722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-pingdom","tag-top-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16724,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16722\/revisions\/16724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}