Opera mobile report: CIS statistics

Another Opera mobile report has been released, based on Opera Mini usage statistics. This April report contains two key points: the use of Opera Mini on iPhone and detailed information on the CIS. But for starters - a few common numbers.



The number of users in the world reached 58.9 million. This is 6.6% more than in March, and by 152% compared with April last year.

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Opera Mini users viewed more than 26.3 billion web pages, which is 1.6% more than in March 2010 and 203% more than last April.



Last month, Opera Mini users generated 398 million MB of data (0.6% more than in March), and over the year traffic grew by 164%.



Top 10 countries by the number of users: Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, USA, South Africa, Nigeria, Vietnam and the UK.



As for the "iPhone", the numbers are.



From April 13 to April 30, 2.6 million Apple mobile phone users became Opera Mini users for the iPhone.



In April, the Apple iPhone became the third most popular device among Opera Mini users around the world. The United States moved from 8th to 6th position in the list of Top 10 countries by the number of users of this mobile browser.



The USA has become the largest region in terms of the number of users of the Opera Mini version for the iPhone. In turn, the device from Apple has become the most popular among users of the mobile browser in the United States, shifting from the leading position BlackBerry. The UK is the fourth largest Opera Mini for iPhone users.



Russia came in seventh position in terms of Opera Mini users for the iPhone, but the iPhone was not among the Top 10 most popular phones for using the browser in Russia.



Now let's see what happens in the CIS.



Top 11 countries in terms of Opera Mini users: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.



From April 2009 to April 2010, the number of viewed web pages in the CIS countries increased by 84%, the number of users - by 63%, and the transmitted data - by 97%.



Finally, the fashion on Opera Mini has reached the Central Asian republics. Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan became leaders in growth of web pages viewed with Opera Mini (by 508,484.1% and 663.9% per year, respectively). In these two countries, the number of unique users increased the fastest, by 194,769.2% and 551.2% per year, respectively. But the leader in the number of web pages viewed by the average user was Armenia - 1085 per month.



The most visited web sites in the CIS using Opera Mini (in descending order of unique visitors): Vkontakte, Mail.ru, Odnoklassniki, Yandex and Google. As before, Opera Mini users in the CIS prefer Nokia, Sony Erricsson and Samsung phones.



Russia has seen a rapid growth in the popularity of Odnoklassniki:

1. vkontakte.ru

2. yandex.ru

3. odnoklassniki.ru (previously 7)

4. mail.ru (previously 3)

5. google.com (previously 4)

6. wikipedia.org (previously 5)

7. spaces.ru (previously 6)

8. my.opera.com (back in the top ten)

9. rambler.ru (back in the top ten)

10. wapos.ru (back in the top ten)



The full text of the mobile report in English is available here .