Opera: U.S. subs view 198 mobile web pages per month

U.S. mobile subscribers view more data-intensive web pages than consumers in any other country, according to browser developer Opera Software's latest State of the Mobile Web report. The average page viewed over U.S. operator networks is approximately 32 KB compressed or almost 320 KB uncompressed, Opera notes--while U.S. subscribers now view an average of 198 mobile webpages per month, the pace is far off consumers in Ukraine, who average 582 page views each month, more than any other international market. Opera adds that Ukraine operators also sport the highest data transfer per user at more than 10 MB per month compressed, which translates to as much as 100 MB of mobile data per user uncompressed.

In April 2009, the Opera Mini browser boasted more than 23.4 million users, a 1.5 percent month-over-month increase and more than 140 percent higher compared to April 2008. Opera Mini users viewed nearly 8.7 billion pages in April 2009, a 0.7 percent increase over March totals and 249 percent higher year-over-year. In the U.S., Opera Mini page-view growth increased 129 percent over April 2008 totals. Google remains the most visited mobile web destination among U.S. Opera Mini users, followed in descending order by Facebook, MySpace, Wikipedia and YouTube.

For more on Opera's April 2009 State of the Mobile Web Report:
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