Google Top Website, iPhone, LG Rumor2 & BlackBerry Top U.S. Phones, Says Opera

operaonphones.jpgThe year-end review of the most popular websites on mobile phones
shows that Google once again rests at the top of the State of the Mobile
Web
top 30 list from Opera, followed closely by Facebook  Another
rising star on the mobile web is the microblogging service Twitter.  The top handset/smartphone in the U.S. is the iPhone followed by the LG Rumor2, BlackBerry Curve, and BlackBerry Bold.

Top 10 global mobile websites for November 2010

  1. Google.com (up 1).
  2. Facebook.com (down 1).
  3. Vkontakte.ru.
  4. Youtube.com (up 4).
  5. Odnoklassniki.ru (down 1).
  6. Yandex.ru (up 1).
  7. Yahoo.com (up 2).
  8. My.opera.com (down 2).
  9. Mail.ru (down 4).
  10. Getjar.com (up 3).

Top U.S. Handsets for November 2010

  1. Apple iPhone.
  2. LG VM265 "Rumor2."
  3. BlackBerry 8520 "Curve."
  4. BlackBerry 9700 "Bold."
  5. LG VM510 "Rumor Touch."
  6. BlackBerry 8330 "Curve."
  7. Samsung SPH-M810 "Instinct S30."
  8. BlackBerry 9630 "Tour."
  9. BlackBerry 8530 "Curve."
  10. BlackBerry 9000 "Bold."

Global trends

  • Opera Mini saw significant increases in all three categories of
    growth in November 2010: unique users, pages viewed and data consumed. 
    In all, 80 million people used Opera Mini in November, 44.6 billion
    pages were served, and 6.3 petabytes of operator data were compressed
    for Opera Mini users.
  • Nigeria passed the United States in terms of total Opera Mini users in the month of November.
  • The United Kingdom, Belarus, Philippines, Poland, Bangladesh and
    Germany all went up in the ranking of top 20 countries.  Turkey was a new
    addition in November, and Malaysia fell off the list.

More results can be obtained in the report: www.opera.com/smw/2010/11/.

With more than 80 million monthly users, Opera Mini is the most
popular browser on mobile devices.  In November alone, users viewed more
than 44 billion webpages and saved money, while the Opera servers
compressed more than 6 petabytes of data.