Opera Mini users view more than 10 billion pages in one month, according to new report

For the first time, Opera Mini users viewed more than 10 billion pages in one month according to the State of the Mobile Web report by Opera. The report provides information on the top global trends affecting the mobile Web and, in addition to the top global trends and country snapshots, the report highlights trends in North America and the Caribbean.
 
According to the report, in June 2009, Opera Mini had nearly 26.5 million unique consumer users, a 4.2% increase from May 2009 and more than 143% compared to June 2008. The numbers are said to reflect only the Opera Mini users who have specifically chosen to install the browser on their phone. Those 26.5 million people also viewed more than 10.4 billion pages in June 2009, which means that Opera Mini servers were processing more than 346 million pages per day. Since May, page views have gone up 8.4%. Since June 2008, page views have increased 224%.
 
Also in June, Opera Mini users generated more than 168.4 million MB of data for operators worldwide. Since May, the data consumed went up by 5.6%. Data in Opera Mini is compressed up to 90% and, if this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed almost 1.7 PB of data in June. Since June 2008, data traffic is up 236%.
 
The top 10 countries for Opera Mini usage this month are (in order): Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, U.S., U.K., Poland, Nigeria. In the top 10 list of countries, India continued to move up the rankings overtaking China for third place.
 
According to the report, Nokia phones continue to be the handsets of preference for Opera Mini users, with Sony Ericsson claiming second place. BlackBerry and Samsung phones are the preference in the United States.
 
"More than 10 billion page views in one month underscore that the Web is already the platform of choice for mobile devices," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. "Web standards provide a more efficient way to create flawless sites across all devices. This strategy, called 'One Web', is more important than ever before as more people will view more pages on all manner of mobile phones."