Opera Software ASA today released its newest State of the Mobile Web report. The report provides information on the top global trends affecting the mobile Web in 10 countries. Opera revealed that Mobile Web usage in Africa grew nearly 170%. Opera web browsing technology is used for PCs, mobile phones and other networked devices.
The full report is available from http://www.opera.com/smw/ (English only). In addition to the top global trends and country snapshots, the report highlights trends in Africa and aggregate operator data for the top 10 countries.
Global trends:
– In April 2009, Opera Mini had over 23.4 million users, up more than 140% compared to April 2008.
– Opera Mini users viewed nearly 8.7 billion pages in April 2009. Since April 2008, page views have increased 249%.
– Last month, Opera Mini users generated more than 151 million MB of data for operators worldwide. Data in Opera Mini is compressed up to 90%. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed up to 1.4 PB of data in April. Over the previous year, data traffic is up 295%.
– Opera Mini usage in Nigeria continues to surge, pushing past Poland and taking the #9 spot.
Africa trends
The top 12 countries using Opera Mini in Africa are South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Zambia, Tanzania, Cote d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Namibia, Ghana and Gabon.
– From April 2008 to April 2009:
– Overall page-views in the top 12 countries listed increased 422%.
– Overall unique users in the top 12 countries listed increased 169%.
– Overall data transferred in the top 12 countries listed increased 348%.
– Since Opera’s last spotlight on Africa (ref: http://www.opera.com/smw/2008/09/), Nigeria jumped from #4 to #2 and Zambia jumped from #9 to #6. Mozambique, Namibia, Ghana and Gabon are new to the spotlight.
– Growth rates continue to soar in Africa–especially in Libya, with 4,155% user growth since April 2008, and in Nigeria, with 2,353% user growth since April 2008.
– Kenya leads the top 12 countries in page views, with each user browsing 372 pages on average each month.
Operator data trends
– Customers of U.S. operators view more data-intensive pages than subscribers in any other country. The average page viewed over U.S. operator networks is approximately 32 KB compressed or almost 320 KB uncompressed.
– Operators in the Ukraine were the big winners. Their customers view 582 pages per month, on average. Ukraine operators also sport the highest data transfer per user at more than 10 MB per month compressed. This is as much as 100 MB of mobile data per user uncompressed.
