Opera Mini's "State of the the Mobile Web" gives insight into mobile Internet use. The latest report focused on Russia.
Opera Mini increased its total consumer user-base to more than 20.5
million. This represents more than 160% growth since February 2008. Opera
Mini users viewed 7.3 billion pages, a 290% increase over February 2008.
Opera Mini servers processed more than 1.2 petabytes of data in February,
generating more than 124 million MB of data traffic for mobile operators
worldwide. Since February 2008, data transfers have grown 338%.
Snapshot: United States : As usual, the US top 10 list is pretty stable, with the exception of Yahoo! dropping two places(from position 5 to position 7).
Top 10 sites in the United States (# of unique users)
1) google.com
2) facebook.com
3) myspace.com
4) wikipedia.org
5) nytimes.com (up from 6)
6) youtube.com (up from 7)
7) yahoo.com (down from 5)
8) gamejump.com
9) accuweather.com
10) my.opera.com (back on the list)
- Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are the top three countries for mobile web use in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
- Yandex and VKontakte replace Google and Facebook, respectively, as the
top search engine and social network in Russia and the Commonwealth of
Independent States. - Nokia is by far the most popular handset brand used by Opera Mini users
in the CIS, followed by Sony Ericsson, which boasts the number-one handset
in Armenia.
The full
report is available from http://www.opera.com/smw/.