It’s that time of the month again. Opera has just published their “State of the Mobile Web” report, and in this issue they focus on the Middle East, and mobile search, but before we dive in on country specifics, here are some crucial data points:
- In January 2010, Opera Mini had about 50 million users, a 7.4% increase from December 2009 and up 149% compared to January 2009.
- Opera Mini users viewed over 23.3 billion pages in January 2010. Since December, page views have gone up 12.7%. Since January 2009, page views have increased 208%.
- Opera Mini’s servers have passed the 3 petabytes per month mark. That’s 3,145,728 gigabytes of data being transcoded. Since January 2009, data traffic is up 176%.
Now for the part that Google cares about, mobile search. In the USA, Google has a 68% piece of the search engine market, while Yahoo! has 32%, and Bing only 0.2%. That high Yahoo! number can be explained by that brief blip in time when the default search engine that came with Opera Mini was Yahoo! and not Google. Those users are probably too lazy to change their default, and are probably still using an old version of Opera Mini.
More USA figures:
- Page-view growth since January 2009: 207.9%
- Unique-user growth since January 2009: 131.9%
- Page views per user: 295
- Top 10 sites (in order): google.com, facebook.com, yahoo.com, wikipedia.org, myspace.com, youtube.com, my.opera.com, cnn.com, espn.go.com, bbc.co.uk
- Top 10 devices using Opera Mini (in order): BlackBerry 8330 (“Curve”), LG LX600 (“Lotus”), Samsung SPH M810 (“Instinct S30”), Samsung SPH M800 (“Instinct”), LG CU920 (“Vu”), Nokia 3110 Classic, BlackBerry 9000 (“Bold”), Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, BlackBerry 9530 (“Storm 2”), BlackBerry 8900 (“Curve”)
If Apple ever approves Opera Mini on the iPhone, expect it to take a top 5 spot rather quickly.
More data from the January 2010 State of the Mobile Web Report, including comprehensive information on what’s hot in the Middle East, can be found here.