The Mobile Web refers to browser-based access to the Internet or web applications using a mobile device connected to a wireless network. For the first time since 2008, the total number of mobile web users grew past the total number of desktop computer based internet users (source: International Telecommunications Union, Oct 2009).
The Norwegian Mobile Web browser gaint Opera released its monthly report where the number of Opera Mini users more than doubled — from about 16.4 million in November 2008 to 41.7 million in November 2009. The company in this month’s report pointed a looking glass at the state of the mobile web in Africa, where Facebook has apparently taken a strong lead and ranks as the most popular site in six out of the top 10 countries.
Some very interesting highlights of the report are here:
The top 10 countries for Opera Mini usage (in order):
- Russia
- Indonesia
- India
- China
- Ukraine
- South Africa
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Vietnam
- Poland
With Indonesia having a fraction of combined population of India and China occupies the second position in the Rankings explains the basic awareness of mobile users from the country.
Some India specific Facts about Mobile Internet usage:
- Page-view growth since November 2008: 228.5%
- Unique-user growth since November 2008: 208.4%
- Page views per user: 336
Top 10 sites in India (unique users)
- google.com
- orkut.com
- gmail.com
- facebook.com
- wikipedia.org
- songs.pk
- youtube.com (9)
- yahoo.com (7)
- wap.in (10)
- zedge.net (back on the list)
Top handsets for November 2009
- Nokia 5130
- Nokia 2700c
- Nokia N70
- Nokia 3110c
- Nokia N73
- Nokia 6300
- Nokia N72
- Nokia 7210
- Nokia 3500c
- Nokia 5310
Above figures clearly signifies the dominance of Nokia over all its competitors at least in India. Opera Mini can be seen as one of the possible benchmark to evaluate the state of mobile internet usage patterns. With the advent of 3G and increasing mobile penetration rates in Asia (India and China) we can expect to interesting patterns and growth figures from Opera.
Image Credits : watblog
Info Credits : Opera Mini
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