As the year 2010 pulls its horses to a rest, several companies are coming up with an analysis of the past twelve months. Opera too has done this disclosing a fresh summation of the most popular websites on mobile phones. Titled the State of the Mobile Web top 30 list, last year the report placed Facebook as the number one website to be visited via handsets.
However, the search engine giant Google has stepped up claiming that position for itself with a more than 80 million Opera Mini users world over. Last month, the top ten most visited sites were enlisted as Google, Facebook, Vkontakte, YouTube, Odnoklassniki, Yabdex, Yahoo, My.opera, Mail and Getjar. In the past year we have seen an impressive rise in technology with upgrading hardware and software.
The handsets that made it to the top ten list which includes the Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, Nokia 2700c, Nokia 6300, Nokia 2690, Apple iPhone, Nokia 2330c, Nokia 2730c, Nokia N70, Nokia C3 and the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic. From the looks of it, Nokia rules the mobile world for majority of Opera fans. Nigeria outnumbered U.S in terms of the total Opera Mini users in the last month. On the other hand Malaysia slipped off the list detailing the top twenty countries using the browser.
“We believe people with access to information lead more social, more informed and more empowered lives,” asserted Jon von Tetzchner, co-founder of Opera Software. “Growth in mobile browsing means the Web is pushing beyond its traditional borders. If the first era of the Web was about expanding the capability and content of the Web, the second age is clearly about access. In Opera we believe that access to the Web is a universal right.”
The usage of the Opera Mini browser witnessed a magnificent growth in terms of unique users, pages viewed and data consumed. Roughly 80 million people utilized it in the month of November. The browser observed compression of 6.3 petabytes operator data for the above mentioned users, whilst serving 44.6 billion pages.
Coming to Indian usage, the top ten list of the most popular sites accessed by ‘unique’ visitors comprised of Google, Facebook, Orkut, YouTube, Getjar, Zedge, Yahoo, Songs.pk, Wikipedia and Vuclip. Top five handsets that made it to the list enrolled the Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, Nokia 2690, Nokia 2700c, Nokia 2730c and Nokia 3110c. The country accounted for a unique-user rise of 301.4 percent and a page-view growth of 416.9 percent since November 2009.
Data transfer too witnesses similar rise ascending to 350.7 percent. Statistics for data transferred per user, data transferred per page view and page views per user are 7MB, 17KB and 433, respectively. Summing up in a single line, the reports show that the power of the Opera Mini browser has been growing year by year with more mobile enthusiasts surfing the web through their handsets.