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U.S. Consumers View the Most Data-intensive Pages on the Mobile Web
Mobile web browser developer. Opera has noted that in April 2009, Opera Mini had over 23.4 million users, up more than 140% compared to April 2008. Opera Mini users viewed nearly 8.7 billion pages in April 2009. Since April 2008, page views have increased 249%.
Last month, Opera Mini users generated more than 151 million MB of data for operators worldwide. Data in Opera Mini is compressed up to 90%. Over the previous year, data traffic is up 295%.
United States snapshot:
Top 10 sites in the United States (# of unique users)
- google.com
- facebook.com
- myspace.com
- wikipedia.org
- youtube.com (up from 7)
- yahoo.com
- nytimes.com (down from 5)
- accuweather.com
- my.opera.com
- espn.com
Top handsets for April 2009
- BlackBerry 8330
- Samsung SPH-M800
- LG CU920
- BlackBerry 9530
- BlackBerry 9000
- BlackBerry 8130
- BlackBerry 8310
- BlackBerry 8320
- BlackBerry 8900
- Samsung SPH-M540
Opera also reported that customers of U.S. operators view more data-intensive pages than subscribers in any other country. The average page viewed over U.S. operator networks is approximately 32 KB compressed or almost 320 KB uncompressed.
Africa trends:
The top 12 countries using Opera Mini in Africa are South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Zambia, Tanzania, Cote d'Ivoire, Mozambique, Namibia, Ghana and Gabon.
From April 2008 to April 2009:
- Overall page-views in the top 12 countries listed increased 422%.
- Overall unique users in the top 12 countries listed increased 169%.
- Overall data transferred in the top 12 countries listed increased 348%.
Growth rates continue to soar in Africa--especially in Libya, with 4,155% user growth since April 2008, and in Nigeria, with 2,353% user growth since April 2008. Kenya leads the top 12 countries in page views, with each user browsing 372 pages on average each month.
"Opera Mini has helped create and define the mobile Web experience for consumers around the world," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. "Our relentless focus on delivering the best possible mobile Web experience helps drive adoption of mobile data plans. We believe that Opera Mini is the perfect win-win solution for both operators and consumers alike."
Posted to the site on 27th May 2009