Only 0.27% of the world’s top 1 million sites are hosted in Africa
Africa, with its over 1 billion people, has reached a 13.5% Internet penetration rate, and there are plenty of big websites about the continent.
But where are those sites hosted? It would be safe to assume that there are big sites about Africa hosted outside the continent, but what would be the top 100 sites actually hosted in Africa?
That’s the question we set out to answer in our latest study. Read on to find out what we discovered.
34 countries in Africa host sites in top 1 M
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