Facebook has become the most popular social network on the mobile web.
According to the monthly Mobile Internet Usage Report, Facebook has become the most popular social network worldwide among Opera Mini users. In 2009, the number of unique Facebook visitors increased by 600%, allowing it to displace VKontakte from its leading position. Twitter led the growth, with the number of unique Opera Mini users visiting the microblogging service growing by 2800% in 2009.
The Monthly Report provides information on mobile internet trends globally and in specific regions. The full version is available at http://www.opera.com/smw (in English).
General data of the Report
- The number of Opera Mini users in December 2009 was 46.3 million, which is 11% more than in November and 159% more than in December 2008.
- 46.3 million users viewed more than 20.7 billion pages in a month. This is 10.1% more than in November and 112% more than in December 2008.
- In December 2009, Opera Mini users generated 315 million
Megabytes of traffic for operators worldwide—a 10.5% increase over November's result. Opera Mini can compress data up to 90%. Therefore, the total volume of data processed by the browser in December amounted to 2.9 petabytes. Compared to December 2008, traffic has grown by 206%.
- Top 10 countries by number of Opera Mini users compared to
The ranking changed last month. In December, it included Russia, Indonesia, India, Ukraine, China, South Africa, the United States, Vietnam, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom. Ukraine's user base surpassed China's, Vietnam continues its rapid growth and has overtaken the United Kingdom, and Nigeria returned to the top 10 after a three-month absence, displacing Poland for the first time.
In 2009, Facebook became the most popular social network in the world, based on the number of Opera Mini users. However, in Russian-speaking countries, VKontakte still holds the lead.
- Twitter has earned the title of fastest growing: in 2009, the number of Opera Mini users accessing this service increased by 2800%.
- Almost all social networks, with the exception of Friendster, in 2009
year showed a significant increase in the number of users.
- The number of web pages viewed using Opera Mini from
In Russia, the number of unique browser users increased by 94.1% in December 2009, and the number of unique browser users increased by 78.7%. On average, each user viewed 425 pages per month, and the average page size was 21 KB (after compression).
The number of Opera Mini users in Ukraine increased by 140.6% year-over-year, and the number of pages viewed increased by 275.8%. Each user viewed an average of 700 pages, and the average page size was 19 KB (after compression). Yahoo! returned to the top 10 most visited websites, displacing YouTube.
