The number of Opera Mini users has exceeded 30 million

According to the data for August 2009, every second a new user appeared at the mobile browser.

September 24, 2009 - Oslo, Norway
Opera Mini confirms the title of the most popular mobile browser in the world: in August of this year, the number of users exceeded 31.9 million, which is almost 10% more than in July. Thus, every second during August Opera Mini got at least one more user. This data is contained in Opera's report on the state of the mobile Internet.
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The Monthly Report contains information about the trends of mobile Internet in the world and in individual regions. Its full version is available at www.opera.com/smw (in English). In addition to the general review, the August Report includes more detailed information on the state of the mobile Web in European countries.

General Information Report
- In August 2009, Opera Mini took advantage of more than 31.9 million people - 9.9% more than in July and 147% more than in August 2008.

- 31.9 million users per month viewed over 13.9 billion pages, which is 15.7% higher than the result of July and by 234% - the result of August last year.

- Opera Mini users have uploaded about 209 million MB of data to their mobile phones. Thus, the result of July is exceeded by 11.7%, and compared to August 2008, traffic increased by 222%. Opera Mini allows you to compress data up to 90%. If the information had not been compressed, users would have to download a total of 1.9 petabytes of data to their mobile phones.

- The composition of the dozens of the largest regions using Opera Mini in August included (in descending order): Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, USA, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and Poland.

- The 11th position is occupied by Vietnam, where the number of users in August increased by 20%. In addition, in the near future, the Philippines, Kenya and France may be among the top 10 largest regions using Opera Mini.

- The ranking of countries with the highest relative increase in Opera Mini users compared to July (from the top 30 regions where the browser is used) looked like this: Australia (52% increase), Georgia (34%), Vietnam (20%), Kenya (19%) , France (16%), Philippines (15%), Brazil (14%), Kazakhstan (13%), Pakistan (11%) and Malaysia (10%).

- Ten European countries by the number of Opera Mini users, excluding the regions appearing in the global Top 10 list, include (in descending order): Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Lithuania and Romania. Turkey leads in relative growth of new users - in this country it was 218.8% compared with August last year. Turkey is followed by France with a rate of 100.7% for the year and the Czech Republic with 72.2%.

- Russia remains the largest consumer of Opera Mini. Over the year, the number of browser users in the country increased by 57.3%, and the number of web pages they viewed increased by 125.3%. On average, each user per month viewed 411 web pages.

Top 10 sites in Russia (by the number of unique Opera Mini users)
1. vkontakte.ru
2. odnoklassniki.ru
3. mail.ru (previously 4th place)
4. yandex.ru (previously 3 place)
5. google.com
6. wikipedia.org
7. spaces.ru (previously 8th place)
8. seclub.org (previously 9th place)
9. rambler.ru (previously 10 place)
10. waplog.net (newbie ranking)

“The Opera Mini experience shows that a key to successful mobile Internet development is a convenient and functional browser,” said Jon von Tetzchner, chief executive officer of Opera Software. - We are constantly working to ensure that as many mobile phones as possible support the Opera Mini browser. Our main task is to carry the Web to the masses, and mobile phones today are the most popular communication device in the world. The question is not whether most people will use mobile devices to access the Internet. The only question is when this happens. Opera Mini is now ready to offer users quick and efficient access to web resources via mobile terminals. ”

Archive of reports on the status of the mobile Internet: www.opera.com/smw/archive

About Opera Software ASA
Opera Software ASA is an industry leader in the development of web browsers for desktops, mobile phones and other devices. Opera Browser has received worldwide recognition from users and manufacturers due to its speed, compactness and greater proximity to standards than other browsers. The headquarters of Opera Software is located in Oslo (Norway), and territorial offices are located in several countries around the world. The company's shares are traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange Stock Exchange under the ticker OPERA. More information about the company: 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
Opera Videos on YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/operasoftware
Make the Internet better! “Choose Opera” blog [EN]: www.chooseopera.com
Opera's microblog on Twitter [EN]: www.twitter.com/opera