Opera mobile report: July 2009

How has the vacation period affected the mobile Internet?

August 25, 2009 - Oslo, Norway
Did Opera Mini users spend their holidays in Aruba or Australia, in Turkmenistan or in Antarctica? The Opera report on the use of mobile Internet in July this year traces the relationship between the number of web pages downloaded using the Opera Mini browser and the most popular holiday regions in which users spent their holidays.
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A monthly report by Opera contains information on global trends in mobile Internet. The full report is available at www.opera.com/smw (available in English). In addition to global trends and more detailed information on the use of the mobile Web in different countries, this report also reflects the activity of users in Iran in connection with the elections held in that country.

Report Basic Data
- In July 2009, the total number of Opera Mini users approached 29.1 million people, which is 9.9% more than in June, and the result of a year ago was exceeded by 145%. These numbers reflect the number of users who have chosen Opera Mini to install on their mobile phones.

- 29.1 million users in July 2009 viewed more than 12 billion web pages. This is 15.4% more than in June and by 223% more than in July 2008.

- The volume of user-generated traffic in July amounted to a total of 187 million megabytes, which is 11% more than a month earlier. Opera Mini allows you to compress data up to 90%. If the information were not compressed, users would have to download 1.7 petabytes of data to their mobile phones. Compared to July 2008, traffic increased by 223%.

- The number of browser downloads from Iran in July increased significantly. However, the number of unique users in the past month here has increased by only 32% compared with June. Moreover, over the year this figure decreased by 22.4%. A similar decrease in the number of users in this region was noted only in Saudi Arabia and Israel (10% in each country). Nevertheless, Iran remains among the regions of the Middle East with the largest number of Opera Mini users. The number of viewed web pages for the year increased from 119 to 188 in recalculation for each user in Iran.

- Opera Mini users traveled to Turkmenistan, Antarctica, Aruba, Andorra, Burundi and Australia. In these regions, the number of unique users in July increased more than the number of downloads of the Opera Mini distribution.

- Top 10 countries by the number of unique Opera Mini users include (in descending order): Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, USA, Nigeria, Germany and Poland.

- The number of pages viewed using Opera Mini in Russia increased by 135.1% compared with July 2008, and the number of unique users increased by 63.5%. On average, each user has viewed 415 pages per month.

Top 10 sites in Russia (by the number of unique Opera Mini users):
vkontakte.ru
odnoklassniki.ru
yandex.ru
mail.ru
google.com
wikipedia.org
wapos.ru
spaces.ru
seclub.org
rambler.ru

“The July report shows more intensive use of the mobile Internet,” said Jon von Tetzchner, chief executive officer of Opera. - We believe that the use of the best mobile browser additionally stimulates the download of web pages from a mobile phone, wherever the user is. Thus, if we want the Internet to become available to everyone, we need a solution that will work on almost every mobile phone. That's why we created Opera Mini, a browser that was appreciated by users all over the world. ”

The archive of reports on the use of mobile Internet is available at:
www.opera.com/smw/archive

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