Opera Software released the January edition of its “State of the Mobile Web” report, highlighting Middle East mobile web usage. Some of the more interesting data from the report include:
- In January 2009, Opera Mini usage jumped 12.1% over the previous month to 20 million unique users. Monthly page views increased even more, jumping 18% to 7.6 billion web pages in the same time period. Data transfers were also up 18% from December 2008 as Opera Mini generated more than 122 million MB of data for operators worldwide — an equivalent of 1.1 billion MB of data if that data wasn’t compressed by Opera’s servers. January of this year also marks the first month that Opera Mini servers have processed more than 1 petabyte of data!
- Armenia led all countries in Opera Mini growth from January 2008 to January 2009, with usage jumping more than 2800%. With 1854%, Nigeria was second and other notable countries include: Egypt (1391%), Philippines (570%) and Kazakhstan (419%). With an average of 669 pages viewed in January 2009, Armenia also led all of the top 35 countries in page views per user.
- The top 10 countries using Opera Mini in the Middle East are: Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon and Yemen.
- The top 10 countries using Opera Mini in the world are: Russia, Indonesia, Ukraine, China, India, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Poland and Germany.
As for the Facebook usage in the Middle East, the popular social networking service was one of the top 10 sites in 9 of the top 10 countries in the region: Iran (#9), Israel (#1), Saudia Arabia (#10), Syria (#3), Jordan (#3), United Arab Emirates (#3), Oman (#9), Kuwait (#4) and Lebanon (#1).
More information about Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report is available from here.