Online mall, Konga.com has been ranked as the most visited website in Nigeria in the latest Alexa rankings. This puts Konga.com ahead of the widely read Nairaland forum and other ecommerce players in the country today.

Konga is ranking at number eight Alexa.com and number 7 on Similarweb. The only companies ahead of Konga in the rankings are international websites and social media companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter.

The recent data on Alexa and similarweb shows that engagement and time spent on Konga.com is 50 per cent more than that of its closest ecommerce competitors. Konga also appears to enjoy more time spent on the site by customers with lower bounce rates.

This is coming on the heels of the company’s disclosure that it enjoyed very successful business results in the year 2014, on the heels of strategic choices by the company’s leadership team.

Speaking on the ranking, PR Head for Konga, Olatomiwa Akande, enthused that the e-retail site is on the way to realising its mission of being the engine of trade and commerce in Africa.

“We are meeting the daily needs of more and more Nigerians from our array of affordable products.” Akande, reiterated the company’s commitment to continuous improvement of the online commerce platform and to supp ort the sellers on the site.

She expressed the company’s pleasure at the volume and variety of high quality traded on the platform. “With over 150,000 items available to customers, Konga has now become a one stop shop for meeting the fashion, gadget and household needs for Nigerian.” she said.