The browser registered growth during the shortest month of the year

Mar 30, 2012 20:31 GMT  ·  By

Opera Mini is currently enjoying over 160 million monthly users, the latest report coming from the Norwegian software giant unveils.

In addition to enjoying more unique users, Opera Mini also registered an increase in the number of served pages lately. In February, Opera Mini served 108 billion pages.

The growth was registered during last month’s four weeks, and comes rather as a surprise, since that was the shortest month of the year.

These details were included in the latest State of the Mobile Web Report coming from Opera, which also provided additional details on the latest trends in the mobile web.

The company took the time to have a closer look at the “March Madness sweeping sports fans all across the USA.”

The company notes that it was not easy to follow the NCAA championships, since many games are played at the same time. However, they considered that this made it “for a perfect use case of a second screen.”

Users did take advantage of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile to have a look at news related to the said championships, the software company notes, which helped it collect and analyze a lot of data.

Some highlights from the said report include:

- Users of the top 5 sports sites grew 38% on the opening weekend compared to the February baseline we selected as comparison - Page views were up 53% over the same period, no doubt a result of people checking multiple games - Syracuse is by far the most popular team in the tournament, according to page view data in Opera Mini - We tried our hand at predicting the outcome of the games by comparing the page view data for each team’s home page. In the Sweet 16 our methodology accurately revealed the winner in 7 of 8 games. - But you still won’t see us in Vegas for the Final Four. In the Elite 8 round, our methodology revealed just one winner from the four games.

Users who would like to have a better look at the said report should head over to the Opera Software’s website for that.