Chinese mobile browser Uc Browser. First successes in RuNet

A few weeks ago, a Levsha user published an article stating that the Chinese browser Uc Browser (the old name UCweb) is making global plans for the Western mobile Internet market.
The article contains outdated data and I decided to make a review based on the data provided by the managers of UC Technology Ltd. itself . as well as their personal observations.

A little about the company

UC Browser, developed by UC Technology Ltd., works on more than 200 major mobile platforms of well-known brands and 3000 mobile terminals like Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, Java, Win CE, Brew, MTK, iPhone, etc.

Currently, UC has already installed standalone servers in North America, Asia, Russia and other regions and has published major products in English, Russian and other languages, which are now used in more than 150 countries and regions of the world. At the moment, the total download volume of UC Browser globally has reached more than a billion. We already have more than 300 million users from all over the world, the monthly number of page views (PV) reaches more than 120 billion. UC has become a pioneer and leader in the field of mobile Internet applications.
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Collaboration on personal experience

I received a proposal for cooperation back in 2010. Manager UC mobile Ltd. offered to place a link to their browser on my site. Cooperation consisted in the fact that I distribute specially made builds of their browser, and for their part they put a link to my site on my home page.
Placed several builds for different platforms and forgot about it. I returned to this issue at the beginning of this year. It turns out all this time my link hung in the Symbian version of their browser.
It was decided to update the builds and start a closer cooperation.
A few days later, a page with the most popular platforms was created on my side. A week later, a special build was made for me with Russian versions of the browser (at that time Russian was only available in the development of our Russian software translators)
The number of installations began to grow exponentially. Site users themselves began to recommend the browser to each other wherever possible.

Global Growth Statistics

The number of active users exceeds 300 million.
The number of users in RuNet exceeds 3 million (we can see the growth in the graph below).
Per month, users browse more than 120 billion. pages.
Number of employees 1400. (in the previous article indicated 1000)

I was forbidden to publish other statistics, but were allowed to show growth statistics for my servers.

Growth statistics on personal experience

Unfortunately, I cannot get statistics from the beginning of cooperation.
For the experiment I took two days: 09/23/2012 and 08/23/2012.

09/23/2012:
Ucweb: 3034632
Opera: 148362
08.23.2012:
Ucweb: 2568527
Opera: 281639

What I did not see earlier, access logs live only a month.

As you can see, Opera is losing ground at a very fast pace. A few months ago, the top browser on my resources was Opera (9-10 places from the Top 15). Today, this top ranks Ucweb

What did the collaboration give me?

• Less complaints from users about downloading files from the site
• Gone complaints about uploading files to the site
• The number of users has increased
• The number of transitions from their start page is growing every day

Conclusion

The last few months something strange has been happening with mobile browsers. Some are gaining popularity, others are the first in the world ...
I wonder how it all ends.

If any reader has a popular mobile resource and wants to cooperate with UC Technology Ltd., but cannot contact them, I can help. Write in the LAN.

You can download the latest version of the browser by clicking on wap.ucweb.com (from your mobile) or from my page.

UPD: [09/25/12, 12:39:19] XXX: yesterday’s package !!!

Yesterday the first Russian version of Uc Browser for Android was released!
Uc Browser 8.4 on Google play