Top Government Websites in South Africa

Key Insights on Top Government Websites in South Africa on January 2026

As of January 2026, sassa.gov.za leads Government in South Africa with 6.98M monthly visits. Its audience skews mobile-first (6.21% desktop / 6.21% mobile), and traffic is up month over month 115.36% and down year over year -37.3%. businesstech.co.za holds second with 5.48M visits and a mobile-leaning mix (8.53% desktop / 91.47% mobile), while labour.gov.za ranks third with 3.08M visits.

Across the leaders, boplats.se is the most mobile-first (100% of visits), whereas fbr.gov.pk is the most desktop-reliant (99.32%). Momentum favors afis.co.za in the latest month (20,635.32%), while groundup.org.za shows the steepest pullback. On a yearly view, bathnes.gov.uk posts the strongest expansion (38,309.39%), contrasted with elections.org.za (-88.69%).

Acquisition patterns also differ: sassa.gov.za is driven primarily by search, sassa.gov.za by direct, and sassa.gov.za by referral; overall, 87 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 11 are search-led, and 1 lean on social.

These insights come from the Traffic & Market Toolkit, enriched with extensive clickstream data.

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