A laggard in the desktop Web browser market, Opera is the undisputed leader in the mobile phone space with over 20 million monthly users of its Opera mini browser, a 12.1% increase from the prior month.
The “State of the Mobile Web” report released today by the Norwegian company, spotted 2 trends :
- The number of people using their mobile phone to access the Web keeps on growing at a double digit rate;
- Mobile phone users are spending more time on their handset browsing the Web pages, resulting in an 18 per cent increase in page views per users.
In January, Opera Mini users generated more than 122 million megabyte of data which is compressed 90% on average. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed more than 1.1 petabyte of data, the first month that Opera Mini servers crossed the 1 petabyte mark.
“To compare, Facebook has 1 petabyte of photos stored. We’re processing all of Facebook’s photos every month through our Opera Mini servers,” explains Opera spokesperson, Falguni Bhuta.
