Opera has published the November statistics for Opera mini, one of the worlds most popular mobile web browser. The number of Opera Mini users more than doubled — from about 16.4 million in November 2008 to 41.7 million in November 2009. This increase shows that their prediction of accelerated growth of the mobile Web has come true. More stats after the break…
- In November 2009, Opera Mini saw increases in all three categories of growth: unique users, pages viewed, and data consumed.
- In this month’s report, we looked at countries in Africa. The top 10 countries using Opera Mini in Africa are: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana, Libya, Ivory Coast, Zambia, Tanzania, and Namibia.
- Some numbers: From November 2008 to November 2009, page views in the top 10 countries of Africa increased by 374%, unique users increased by 177%, and data transferred increased by 183%.
- Since our last spotlight on Africa, Kenya jumped from #4 to #3, Ghana jumped from #11 to #5, and Ivory Coast jumped from #8 to #7.
- Growth rates in Africa: Ghana and Kenya lead the top 10 African countries in terms of page-view growth (4,348.6% and 615.4%, respectively). Ghana and Ivory Coast lead the top 10 African countries in growth of unique users (1,558.8% and 330.2%, respectively). Kenya leads the top 10 African countries in page views, with each user browsing 525 pages on average each month.
- Facebook has taken the lead in Africa; it is the most popular site visited by Opera Mini users in 6 out of 10 countries and the #2 site in three of the countries where it is not #1. Google is also very popular, and is ahead of Facebook in a few of the top 10 African countries. Yahoo and Wikipedia are also ubiquitous in the top 10 lists of the various African countries.
- Nokia and Sony Ericsson handsets are extremely popular in Africa, but Samsung is a significant exception, boasting the most popular phone used by Opera Mini users in South Africa, Zambia and Namibia.
- This month’s report compares the Opera Mini growth rates in different regions around the world.
- Between November 2008 and November 2009, the fastest growing region in terms of Opera Mini page views was Southeast Asia, followed by Africa and Latin America.
- Between November 2008 and November 2009, the fastest growing region in terms of Opera Mini users was Southeast Asia, followed by South Asia and Africa.
- Between November 2008 and November 2009, the fastest growing region in terms of data transferred using Opera Mini was Southeast Asia, followed by East Asia and Latin America.
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