Trends:
State of the Mobile Web
Every month, Opera conducts the definitive review of the numbers and trends shaping the mobile Web. Here's a sneak peek at what you will find this month.
Month upon month, looking at the sheer number of users and volume of Web-page views, as the State of the mobile Web does, the data are exceptionally revealing about users, usage trends and, in effect, the true state of the mobile Web today. However, the same data can obscure the story of mobile operators, who enable access to the mobile Web on their networks, and the innovative tools they adopt to ease this mobile Web access. This month, while Opera Insights digs deeper into Opera partnerships with operators and the technology that helps operators offer more mobile-Web options, the State of the mobile Web report also takes a look at operators, hand in hand with meaningful data about Opera Mini usage.
This month we also look at the how operators in the top 10 countries for Opera Mini usage stack up. It turns out that customers of US operators view more data-intensive pages than subscribers in any other country. The average page viewed over US operator networks is approximately 32 KB compressed or almost 320 KB uncompressed.
But it turns out that operators in Ukraine were the big winners. Their customers each view on average 582 pages per month. Ukrainian operators also sport the highest data transfer per user at more than 10 MB per month compressed. This can be slightly more than 100 MB of mobile data per user uncompressed.
Over the last month, Opera Mini was used by 23.4 million consumers to view 8.7 billion Web pages. The combined data transfer for Opera Mini was 151 million MB. Opera Mini compresses pages up to 90 percent, meaning the actual amount of data processed by our servers in April was closer to 1.4 petabytes. These numbers also do not take into account our many operator deals. They reflect only those people who have chosen to download Opera Mini themselves.