Google Services top on Mobile Web in India

As this year draws to end, sheets of analysis for this year and upcoming year are going through preparation as well. According to the State of the Mobile Web report for November 2009, Opera Mini has garnered more than 41.7 million users across the world representing a 5.3 rise compared to the previous month. Reflecting over the statistics, the number of page views in November witnessed a rise of 9.5 percent while data consumption has upsurge of 8.3 percent compared to the previous month.

Managing to seize attention of users worldwide, in Africa, Facebook has taken a strong lead and ranks as the most popular site in six out of the top ten countries. The report which is published monthly offers information on the top global trends influencing the mobile Web. Besides, the report highlights trends in Africa and examines regions of fastest growth of Opera Mini.

Paying heed to global trends, in November 2009, more than 41.7 million users used Opera Mini, thereby leading it to increase by 5.3 percent from October 2009 and more than 154 percent compared to November 2008. Nearly 41.7 million users who utilized Opera Mini have viewed more than 18.8 billion pages in November 2008. Since October, page-views have gone up by 9.5 percent. In all, page-views have increased by 231 percent since November 2008.

Moreover, Opera Mini users generated over 285 million megabytes of data for operators worldwide in November 2009. Since October, the data consumption went up by 8.3 percent. Data in Opera Mini is compressed up to 90 percent. On the other hand, if the data were uncompressed then Opera Mini users would have viewed over 2.6 petabytes of data in November. Since November 2008, data traffic is up by 213 percent.

“It is heartening to know that Opera Mini continues to grow consistently in all regions and categories – specially in continents like Asia and Africa where mobiles phones are more likely the only way for people to access the Web,” expressed Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “At Opera, we are striving to bring the most innovative and affordable way for people to access the mobile Web and expect 2010 will prove just as successful for us as the case has been in previous years.”

Order-wise, the top ten countries for Opera Mini usage are Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam and Poland. Now confabbing about trends in India, page-view growth since November 2008 has been 228.5 percent, unique-user growth since November 2008 has been 208.4 percent, page-views per user led to 336 percent. On the other side, 7 percent of compressed data was transferred per user (MB) while 20 percent compressed data was transferred per page view (KB).

Now, looking over top ten sites in India, Google.com ranked first followed by Orkut.com at No. 2, Gmail.com at No. 3, Facebook.com at No. 4, Wikipedia.org at No.5, Songs.pk.com at No.6, YouTube.com at No.7 (up from No.9), Yahoo.com at No.8 (down from No.7), Wap.in at No.9 (up from No.10), and Zedge.net at No.10 (back on the list).

Whereas top handsets for November 2009 were Nokia 5130 at No.1, Nokia 2700c at No.2, Nokia N70 at No.3, Nokia 3110c at No.4, Nokia N73 at No.5, Nokia 6300 at No.6, Nokia N72 at No.7, Nokia 7210 at No.8, Nokia 3500c at No.9, and Nokia 5310 at No.10. Thus, Nokia seemed to dominate the market with such ranking.