Opera has published the State of the Mobile Web report of November 2009 statistics for Opera Mini, one of the most popular mobile browser.
According to Opera, the number of Opera Mini users has more than doubled to 41.7 million users in November 2009 from 16.4 million users in November 2008, which depicts the fact that the mobile web is expanding exponentially.
Other Global trends worth noting are:
- In November 2009, more than 41.7 million people used Opera Mini, a 5.3% increase from October 2009 and an increase of 154% compared to November 2008.
- Those 41.7 million people viewed more than 18.8 billion pages in November 2009. Since October 2009, the page views have gone up 9.5% and since November 2008, the page views have zoomed by 231%.
- Opera Mini users generated over 285 Million MB of data for operators worldwide in November 2009. Since October 2009, the data consumed went up by 8.3%. The data in Opera Mini is compressed up to 90%. So if this data was uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 2.6 petabytes of data in November 2009. The Data traffic is up by 213% since November 2008.
- The top 10 countries for Opera Mini usage (in order): Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam and Poland.