Monday, June 28, 2010

Indonesia, The Biggest Country of Opera Mini's Users

After the second consecutive year Russia became the country's largest users of Opera Mini, its position must be willing to be shifted by Indonesia.

According to statistics issued by Opera Software, Indonesia was ranked at the top, beating the Russians, as the top country of Opera Mini users. Russia apparently could not avoid the domination of Indonesia, which increased approximately 317 percent since last year.

Opera Mini has more than 76 percent market share of mobile browsing in Indonesia in May 2010. In May 2010, Opera has had more than 61.4 million users, up 4.2 percent from April 2010. Since May 2009, the number of unique users has increased by 142.0 percent.

Opera Mini users viewed more than 28.3 million pages in the month of May 2010 yesterday. Since April, page views have increased by 7.7 percent. Meanwhile, since May 2009, Web page views grew 193.8 percent.

In the month of May 2010, Opera users use more than megabytes of data from 433 million worldwide and operators since April of data consumed went up by 8.8 percent. Data in Opera Mini in the first compression up to 90 percent. If these data uncompressed, Opera Mini users should have seen more than 4.0 petabytes power in May. Data traffic increased by 171.8 percent since May 2009.

Besides the turn Indonesia into the top spot, ahead of Ukraine's jump Nigeria, while South Africa jumped over the United States. After the change, the top 10 countries for the use of Opera in last May 2010 are Indonesia, Russia, India, China, Nigeria, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, Vietnamese and English.

In the report also found, in Indonesia the growth of page views since May 2009 reached 570.6 percent. Growth in unique users since May 2009 amounting to 317.1 percent. While the number of pages viewed per user reached 676. In addition, the data is transferred to six megabytes per user, and approximately nine kilobytes of data to be transferred to the capacity of pages viewed.

"Welcome to Indonesia who is now leading mobile Web access via Opera Mini the world. This is the result of tremendous support given to our community of Opera users. They've helped millions of people of Indonesia discovered how Opera Mini can make mobile web browsing becomes faster and more affordable. Whether you have a smart phone or a regular mobile phone, Opera Mini has always come to rescue by providing a browsing experience as good, regardless of the type of phone you use, " says founder Jon von Tetzchner Opera Software, in his statement, Monday (06/28/2010).