14 DAY TRIAL // Norwegian company Opera Software has recently released its monthly analysis of the mobile Web usage all around the world, and announced that its Opera Mini mobile browser had gained more users during February. During that month, the application had a number of more than 50.5 million users, which marks a 1.7 percent increase when compared to the previous month, and a 145 percent growth when compared to February 2009.
According to the software company, the 50.5 million people that used Opera Mini in February viewed more than 22 billion pages during the time frame, a 5.6 percent decrease when compared to January 2010. The company also notes that this is probably due to the fact that February had only 28 days, compared to 31 in January, and adds that the page views went up 200 percent when compared to the same time frame a year ago.
“In February 2010, Opera Mini users generated over 330 million MB of data for operators worldwide. Since January, the data consumed went down by 1.9%, also due to the fewer number of days in February. Data in Opera Mini is compressed by up to 90%. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 3 petabytes of data in February. Since February 2009, data traffic is up over 164%,” Opera notes.
At the same time, the company says that the top 10 countries for the browser's usage were Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, Nigeria, the United States, Vietnam and the United Kingdom. Nigeria managed to overtake the United States in the time frame, and China ended the month on the fourth position, sending Ukraine on the fifth. Additional details can be found on Opera's website here.
Other findings of the report also include: - In February 2010, people browsing with Opera Mini (in the top 10 countries according to unique users) spent approximately 103.8 million dollars. That figure translates to approximately 1.2 billion dollars per year. - Using $1 per megabyte as a global average, Opera Mini users generate nearly $4 billion for operators worldwide each year. - From a per-user perspective, Opera Mini users spent approximately $4 on average in the month of February, which comes out to $48 per year. The heaviest spending occurs in the United States ($146.40 user/year) and the United Kingdom ($102/user/year), whereas the least spending occurs in India ($8.76/user/year) and South Africa ($11.52/user/year).