14 DAY TRIAL // Norwegian software company Opera Software has just announced that its Opera Mini, the most popular mobile browser in the world, has managed to surpass the 80.0 million users mark in November 2010.
According to the company, the web browser registered great growth during the last month, in all categories, including unique users, pages viewed and data consumed.
To the aforementioned 80.0 million users the browser accounted for in November 2010, we can add the fact that the web browser managed to serve no less than 44.6 billion pages, and that it compressed no less than 6.3 petabytes of operator data for its users.
“With more than 80 million monthly users, Opera Mini is the most popular browser on mobile devices. In November alone, users viewed more than 44 billion webpages and saved money, while the Opera servers compressed more than 6 petabytes of data,” the company notes in a press release.
At the same time, the company announced some interesting changes in terms of usage on various markets around the world, including the fact that Nigeria is ahead of United States in terms of total Opera Mini users for November.
Among the changes recorded in the top 20 countries, Opera notes that the United Kingdom, Belarus, Philippines, Poland, Bangladesh and Germany all went up, and that Turkey entered the top, as Malaysia fell off the list in November.
All this data was included in Opera's State of the Mobile Web report, which can be found here.
The report also shows that Google managed ti climb to the first position on the top 30 list, taking the crown from Facebook, which was the leader during the last year. The social networking site is currently on the second position on the top.
At the same time, Opera says that Twitter has registered impressive growth during the ongoing year, climbing up eight places to #13 in the ranking. While the older social network Friendster went down in popularity, the social website Orkut experienced growth as well, attracting more and more Brazilian users on its side.
“We believe people with access to information lead more social, more informed and more empowered lives,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder, Opera Software.
“Growth in mobile browsing means the Web is pushing beyond its traditional borders. If the first era of the Web was about expanding the capability and content of the Web, the second age is clearly about access. In Opera we believe that access to the Web is a universal right.”