Opera: How do 196M users use mobile internet? Traffic, and most popular sites in European countries

This month is rich in informative reports (in particular, on trends in the network , and the future of mobile platforms ). Now, just in the subject, Opera released a fresh report State of Web (the previous one was released in April), where it talks about using the Internet from mobile devices , and includes a list of the 10 most popular sites for most European countries .

The preferences of mobile users in different countries do not coincide at all. In general, in Europe, the most popular news sites (23 of 35 countries), and then go search engines. Romania and Spain are most obsessed with sports (but most of all mobile sports fans are in Cyprus). In addition, the top ten most popular:

• France, Belgium, Italy and Macedonia: portals for women;
• Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland and Greece: weather forecasts;
• Sweden: Most of all they love news, entertainment, shopping and announcements;
• Finland and Bulgaria: sites for young parents;
• Germany: Culinary recipes.

More and more people are accessing the Internet from mobile devices.

Interesting Facts:
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In November 2012, the number of unique users of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile increased to 215M. Opera Mini servers (Opera Mobile does not use them) processed more than 130 billion pages, and compressed about 11 petabytes of data for Opera Mini users. More than 31% of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile users own smartphones. Compared to November 2011, the total number of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile users increased by 92% in 1 year.

Also provides data by month. In November 2012, there were 215M Mini and Mobile users. Of these, more than 20M used Opera Mobile, and the rest Opera Mini. Compared with November 2011, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile together grew by more than 29% in 1 year.

Fully study, including lists of the top 10 sites, divided by country, can be found here .

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It is a pity that for some reason the data for Russia and Ukraine are not presented.
The most popular sites are also not listed. I wonder for what reason?