⚡ Networking in South Africa

Networking technologies are protocols, standards, and mechanisms that provide secure and reliable delivery of web content, data exchange management, security policies, and performance optimization between servers and clients.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our data, networking technologies are used on 89.2% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top networking technologies in South Africa in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is TLS with an impressive share of 78.3%, followed by HTTP 2+ with 69% and Cookies with 30.4%.

TLS 78.3%
HTTP 2+ 69%
Cookies 30.4%
HSTS 19.7%
♯ ETag 19.7%
↪ Redirect 11.2%
CSP 10.9%
QUIC 10%
CORS 2.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top technologies that are more popular in South Africa than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

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✨ Best Networking Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 9 networking technologies used on sites from South Africa, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	TLS Fremont, California, United States A cryptographic protocol that provides end-to-end encryption of data transmitted over the Internet, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and authentication between communicating systems.	78.3%
2	HTTP 2+ Fremont, California, United States An application-layer protocol used to transfer resources such as HTML documents, images, and other web content, forming the foundation of data communication in web browsers.	69%
3	Cookies Fremont, California, United States Small pieces of data that a website sends to a visitor's web browser when they visit.	30.4%
4	HSTS Fremont, California, United States The HTTP Strict Transport Security standard ensures that a user's browser always connects to a website using HTTPS.	19.7%
5	♯ ETag Fremont, California, United States An identifier for a specific version of a resource that is used for cache validation.	19.7%
6	↪ Redirect Cross-domain redirection that sends visitors to a different domain.	11.2%
7	CSP Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The Content-Security-Policy HTTP response header and meta tag are used to control what resources a given page can load.	10.9%
8	QUIC Fremont, California, United States A multiplexed transport layer network protocol built on top of UDP, originally developed at Google.	10%
9	CORS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An HTTP header-based mechanism used to safely bypass same-origin policy and allow requests to other domains.	2.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Networking in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.