Opera Mini Sees Rise in User Numbers

Browser company Opera says that its Opera Mini mobile browser has garnered more than 41.7 million users worldwide, a 5.3% increase over the previous month, according to its ‘State of the Mobile Web’ report for November 2009. The number of page views in November increased by 9.5% and data consumption increased 8.3% over October 2009. In Africa, Facebook has taken a strong lead and ranks as the most popular site in six out of the top 10 countries.
The report, published monthly, provides information on the top global trends affecting the mobile web. In addition to the top global trends and country snapshots, the report highlights trends in Africa and examines regions where Opera Mini is enjoying the fastest growth.
Report findings include:

• In November 2009, more than 41.7 million people used Opera Mini, a 5.3% increase over October, and a 154% increased over November 2008.
• Those 41.7 million people viewed more than 18.8 billion pages during November 2009. Since October, page views have risen 9.5%. Since November 2008, page views have increased by 231%.
• Opera Mini users generated over 285 million MB of data for operators worldwide in November 2009. Operate notes that data in Opera Mini is compressed up to 90%. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 2.6 petabytes of data in November. 
• The top 10 countries for Opera Mini usagem in order, are Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, US, UK, Vietnam and Poland.

The full report is available here.