Shopee rises as most downloaded shopping app in Q2

It had 2.8 million monthly average visitors.

Shopee reigned as the most downloaded mobile e-commerce shopping app in Singapore with more than 2.8 million monthly average website visitors or an 11% QoQ increase compared to the previous quarter, a report by e-commerce company iPrice Group revealed.

The Singapore-based platform beat out other rivals to become the most actively used mobile e-commerce app in Southeast Asia and is also the most visited e-commerce platform, with an average of 200 million desktop and mobile visitors on its website.

Meanwhile, Lazada’s is the most actively used mobile app in Singapore during the second quarter, and is also the most visited e-commerce site with an average of 7.5 million users.

The Alibaba-backed e-commerce company is also noted as the most actively used app in the first half of the year, ranking first in monthly average users during the period. Lazada is also the second-highest most visited e-commerce website, garnering an average of 174 million visitors during the same period.

10ooQ is the second most actively used shopping app as well as the third most downloaded app in Singapore. On average, 10ooQ obtained more than 7.1 million visitors.

Amongst apps not tailored for the Singapore market, Taobao is the most actively used mobile shopping app, at 4th. American apps AliExpress and Amazon ranked at 7th and 8th place, respectively.

“Apps by Alibaba such as Taobao and AliExpress remained prominent among Singaporean consumers probably due to the increased popularity of Chinese products and Chinese language proficiency in the country,” the report said.