Opera Mini Passes 76.3M Users Mark in October

Opera Mini, the mobile browser Norwegian software company Opera has pushed out to a wide range of mobile devices out there, managed to pass the 76.3 million users mark in October 2010, enjoying a 7.1 percent increase when compared to September 2010.

The increase is impressive when compared to the number of users that Opera had October 2009. Year-on-year, the browser's users base grew 92 percent, Opera announced.

In October, Opera Mini's users viewed a number of 41.6 billion pages, marking an increase of 12.6 percent in page views when compared to September, and a growth of 142 percent when compared to October last year.

The amount of data that Opera Mini users generated all around the world in October was of over 616 million MB.

However, since Opera Mini delivers data compressed by up to 90 percent, the amount would have been of over 5.7 petabytes in October.

The consumed data went up 15.1 percent when compared to September, and up 134 percent when compared to the same time frame a year ago.

“We have often said that the next generation will grow up knowing the Web mostly through their mobile phones,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder, Opera.

“We see this trend already emerging in different regions around the world. The mobile Web will bring a profound change in how we connect with one another. I think the results from this survey already show that change taking place.”

As for the countries where Opera Mini is most used among mobile phone owners, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Egypt, the Philippines and Bangladesh went up in the top 20 ranking, Opera announced. The company also noted that Kenya, Poland and Germany went down in the rankings.

All the data was published in Opera's monthly report, which, this time, was focused on countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), where the page views in top 11 countries in the CIS went up by 128 percent year-on-year, while the number of unique users went up by 44 percent.

“The top 11 countries using Opera Mini in that region are Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan,” the company notes.

Additional info on the report can be found on the company's website here.