According to Mobile Web report for November 2009, Opera Mini has garnered more than 41.7 million users worldwide showing a 5.3 percent jump compared to the previous month. The number of page-views in November 2009 went up 9.5% and data consumption increased 8.3% compared to the previous month. In Africa, Facebook has taken a strong lead and ranks as the most popular site in 6 out of the top 10 countries.Global trends:
- In November 2009, more than 41.7 million people used Opera Mini, a 5.3% increase from October 2009 and more than 154% compared to November 2008.
- Those 41.7 million people viewed more than 18.8 billion pages in November 2009. Since October, page-views have gone up 9.5%. Since November 2008, page-views have increased 231%.
- Opera Mini users generated over 285 million megabytes of data for operators worldwide in November 2009. Since October, the data consumed went up by 8.3%. Data in Opera Mini is compressed up to 90%. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 2.6 petabytes of data in November. Since November 2008, data traffic is up 213%.
The top 10 countries for Opera Mini usage (in order): Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam and Poland.
Trends in India:
– Page-view growth since November 2008: 228.5%
-Unique-user growth since November 2008: 208.4%
-Page-views per user: 336
-Data (compressed) transferred per user (MB): 7
-Data (compressed) transferred per page view (KB): 20
Top 10 sites in India (no. of unique users)
1) google.com 2) orkut.com 3) gmail.com 4) facebook.com 5) wikipedia.org 6) songs.pk 7) youtube.com (up from 9) 8) yahoo.com (down from 7) 9) wap.in (up from 10) 10)zedge.net (back on the list)
Top handsets for November 2009
1) Nokia 5130 2) Nokia 2700c 3) Nokia N70 4) Nokia 3110c 5) Nokia N73 6) Nokia 6300 7) Nokia N72 8) Nokia 7210 9) Nokia 3500c 10) Nokia 5310