State of the Mobile Web, June 2009

This month, we have 10 billion reasons to be excited. For the first time, people using Opera Mini viewed more than 10 billion pages in one month, 8% over the previous month. The number may be significant for Opera Mini, but is far more important for the mobile Web itself.

You see, these numbers prove the mobile Web is not confined to smartphones alone. In general, feature phones from Nokia and Sony Ericsson dominate our reports. For companies planning their mobile Web strategy, it is not enough to cater to one phone or one type of phone; rather it is important to code for the Web itself and let the browser on the phone handle the rest.

We refer to this concept--using Web standards to create sites that work across devices--as One Web. One Web is more critical now than ever before to ensure millions of users are able to access sites and services. Open Web standards enable One Web, and products like our Dragonfly developer tools make it easier to create sites that work flawlessly on devices from mobile phones in San Francisco to TVs in Taiwan.

We are fortunate that millions of Web developers are already hard at work making their sites available in all browsers. Thanks to their efforts, we believe we are closer now more than ever before to bringing the richness of One Web to everyone.

Kind Regards,
Jon S. von Tetzchner
CEO, Opera Software

Part 1: Growth

Number of users

In June 2009, Opera Mini had nearly 26.5 million users, a 4.2% increase from May 2009 and more than 143% compared to June 2008.

Pages transcoded

Opera Mini users viewed more than 10.4 billion pages in June 2009. Since May, page views have gone up 8.4%. Since June 2008, page views have increased 224%.

Month	Page views
July 2007	867,208,160
August 2007	907,690,600
September 2007	872,028,768
October 2007	1,192,916,658
November 2007	1,414,205,703
December 2007	1,558,566,188
January 2008	1,787,235,674
February 2008	1,883,751,325
March 2008	2,429,200,080
April 2008	2,491,451,387
May 2008	2,947,979,866
June 2008	3,224,286,622
July 2008	3,736,244,111
August 2008	4,172,941,429
September 2008	4,533,894,901
October 2008	5,088,923,679
November 2008	5,703,580,103
December 2008	6,418,665,392
January 2009	7,592,623,125
February 2009	7,347,728,912
March 2009	8,627,181,759
April 2009	8,687,835,336
May 2009	9,641,002,614
June 2009	10,447,031,428

Data consumed

In June 2009, Opera Mini users generated more than 168.4 million MB of data for operators worldwide. Since May, the data consumed went up by 5.6%. Data in Opera Mini is compressed up to 90%. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed almost 1.6 PB of data in June. Since June 2008, data traffic is up 236%.

Month	Data transfer (MB)
July 2007	10,447,285
August 2007	11,145,396
September 2007	10,654,061
October 2007	13,412,789
November 2007	15,818,999
December 2007	21,613,966
January 2008	25,437,344
February 2008	28,477,270
March 2008	35,536,969
April 2008	38,264,066
May 2008	46,273,165
June 2008	50,181,823
July 2008	57,824,328
August 2008	64,853,884
September 2008	70,095,676
October 2008	79,167,872
November 2008	91,084,753
December 2008	103,144,185
January 2009	122,005,065
February 2009	124,835,298
March 2009	148,884,676
April 2009	151,023,302
May 2009	159,545,769
June 2009	168,483,963

Part 2: Country snapshots for June 2009

Part 3: Spotlight on North America and the Caribbean

Top 10 countries snapshot

Part 4: Summer fun: visualizing the number of Opera Mini users worldwide

In June, almost 26.5 million people used Opera Mini to browse the Web from their mobile phones. But how do you visualize 26.5 million people?

* Dimensions used: http://www.europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-6300/technical-specifications/