The activity of Russian Opera Mini users has more than tripled over the year.

The average Russian user Opera Mini browses over 400 web pages and downloads 7.47 MB ​​of data per month

Oslo, Norway - May 27, 2009
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The company Opera Software has released a fresh report on the status and trends of the mobile Internet in April 2009, based on data on the use of Opera Mini. The report contains general information about the dynamics, as well as information about local user preferences. This time, Opera Software presented aggregated data on the traffic of mobile operators in various regions of the world.

"Opera Mini helps users to acquire and improve their skills on the Internet from mobile devices," said Jon von Tetzchner, Chief Executive Officer of Opera Software. - At the same time, our browser draws the attention of subscribers to the services of the mobile Internet. We believe in the win-win concept, according to which both parties win - Opera Mini users and telecom operators. ”

The full version of the report can be found at: www.opera.com/smw

Main conclusions

• In April 2009, Opera Mini took advantage of more than 23.4 million people - 1.5% more than a month earlier and 140% more than in April 2008.
• Over the past month, users viewed more than 8.7 billion pages, so the result a year ago was exceeded by 249%. With the help of Opera Mini, a total of 151 million MB of information was downloaded to mobile devices - 295% more than a year earlier. Opera Mini can compress data by 90%. If they were not subjected to compression, users would have to download about 1.4 petabytes of information.
• Compared to April 2008, the number of Opera Mini users in Russia increased by 82.9%, and the number of web pages they loaded - by 205.5%. On average, Russians viewed 416 web pages per month.
• In April, Russians downloaded an average of 7.47 MB ​​of data, and the average web page size was 18.39 KB. If Opera Mini had not compressed the data, this figure would have increased to almost 184 KB.
• The 10 most visited sites on the Runet by the number of unique Opera Mini users:

vkontakte.ru
odnoklassniki.ru
yandex.ru
mail.ru
rambler.ru
wikipedia.org (previously 7th place)
google.com (previously 6th place)
wapos.ru
my.opera.com
seclub.org

• 10 most popular in Russia mobile phones for work on the Internet (on use of Opera Mini)

Nokia 6300
Nokia N73
Sony Ericsson K790i
Sony Ericsson K750i
Nokia 6233
Nokia 5310
Sony Ericsson K550i
Nokia N70
Sony Ericsson W760i
Nokia 6120c

About Opera Software ASA
Opera Software ASA has opened up new ways to browse the web on PCs, mobile phones and other Internet devices. The cross-platform browser technology developed by Opera is known for its functionality, standards compliance and small size. At the same time, it provides users with fast, secure and dynamic Internet access. The main office of Opera Software is located in Oslo, Norway, with offices around the world. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the exchange code OPERA. More information is available at: www.opera.com

useful links
Official blog, Russian-speaking community Opera: my.opera.com/russian
Opera's blog on Habrahabr.ru: habrahabr.ru/company/opera
Community Opera in the social network VKontakte.ru: vkontakte.ru/club15122
Make the web better! “Choose Opera” blog [EN]: www.chooseopera.com
Opera's microblog on Twitter [EN]: www.twitter.com/opera