Popular social network Facebook and search engine giant, Google, have topped the list of the top-ten most visited websites on the continent.

This was revealed in a research report titled the "State of the Mobile Web" that was conducted by mobile web browser, Opera Mini.

Opera Mini is a proxy-based web browser for mobile phones, which compresses data for data savings and allowing web surfing on slower mobile networks.

And its report gave a snapshot of the Opera Mini usage pattern in Africa.

"Facebook is four times as prevalent in the top spot of most accessed domains for African Opera Mini users, with 41 top placements, compared to Google's 9 places," the report reads.

Facebook, which celebrated its tenth birthday this year has stated that at the end of 2013 it had 1.23 billion monthly active users worldwide.

In Africa, Facebook had more than 50 million users as of March 2013, according to research firm Socialbakers.

And in a country like South Africa the popular social network has an active has 9.4 million active users as revealed by a research study released by technology market research firm World Wide Worx and social media measurement company Fuseware last year.

The report also revealed that other popular international websites for Opera Mini users on the continent include Wikipedia, Yahoo and YouTube.

Meanwhile, southern African nation Zimbabwe was the counntry with the most local websites in the top-ten list with four out of the ten spots being local sites, namely newsday.co.zw, herald.co.zw, econet.co.zw, and myzimbabwe.co.zw

"Local websites are, to a lesser degree, represented in the top-ten lists for each country. A closer look at these sites shows some interesting differences in the various countries," it was stated in the report.