Revenue for the company, seen as a proxy for China's increasingly crucial consumer sector, reached 32.15 billion yuan (USD 4.83 billion) in the June quarter, it said in a statement.
The total was well ahead of the 30.2 billion-yuan average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg News.
Alibaba is China's dominant player in online commerce, with its Taobao platform estimated to hold more than 90 percent of the consumer-to-consumer market, and its Tmall platform is believed to have over half of business-to-consumer transactions.
Still, Alibaba's chief financial officer Maggie Wu described the results as "excellent".
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"The 59 percent revenue growth for the company overall and the 49 percent revenue growth of our China retail marketplaces represent the highest growth rates we've achieved since our IPO," she said in the statement.
The company's gross merchandise volume (GMV) -- a measure of value for online sales -- rose 24 percent year-on-year to USD 126 billion in the June quarter, the statement said, matching the growth of the previous three months.
"Our results show the scale and leverage of our ecosystem, as we strengthen our competitive positions in core commerce, cloud computing and digital media and entertainment," Alibaba chief executive officer Daniel Zhang said in the statement.
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