Opera: Mobile web views approach 6B in November

Opera Mini mobile browser users viewed more than 5.7 billion mobile web pages in November--up 12. 1 percent over October figures and a 303 percent year-over-year increase--according to browser development firm Opera Software's latest State of the Mobile Web report. Opera Mini users generated more than 82.9 million MB of data for operators worldwide last month, a 12.5 percent increase over October data consumption totals--Opera adds that data in Opera Mini is compressed 90 percent on average, meaning that if this data were uncompressed, users would have viewed over 829 million MB in November. Opera states data traffic is now up 463 percent over November 2007 totals.
While Opera notes regions like Africa and Southeast Asia often showed quadruple-digit mobile web page view growth in 2008, more developed countries posted moderate gains as well. Page views in Opera Mini grew 200 percent since January 2008 in the U.S., while in Sweden--home to some of the highest broadband penetration totals in the world--page views increased 58 percent over the course of the year. The Opera Mini was first introduced in the Swedish market in 2005.

In addition, Opera reports while Google remains the top U.S. mobile website in terms of unique visitors, social networking site Facebook is now number two, knocking archrival MySpace to the number three spot. Other sites in the top 10 include Wikipedia, Yahoo, the New York Times and GameJump. After a five-month absence, CNN.com returned to the list at number nine, a leap Opera suggests may be due to November's U.S. presidential election.

For more on Opera's State of the Mobile Web report for November:
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