Top Science Websites in South Africa

Key Insights on Top Science Websites in South Africa on December 2025

As of December 2025, sciencedirect.com leads Science in South Africa with 281.22K monthly visits. Its audience skews desktop-first (66.27% desktop / 66.27% mobile), and traffic is down month over month -21.67% and down year over year -21.26%. scitechdaily.com holds second with 118.78K visits and a mobile-leaning mix (0.45% desktop / 99.55% mobile), while mdpi.com ranks third with 98.93K visits.

Across the leaders, astrobiology.com is the most mobile-first (100% of visits), whereas overleaf.com is the most desktop-reliant (100%). Momentum favors planetary.org in the latest month (15,200%), while sognage.com shows the steepest pullback. On a yearly view, astrobiology.com posts the strongest expansion (820,400%), contrasted with globalresearch.ca (-81.49%).

Acquisition patterns also differ: sciencedirect.com is driven primarily by search, sciencedirect.com by direct, and sciencedirect.com by referral; overall, 59 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 29 are search-led, and 11 lean on social.

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