Study: Men dominate mobile web browsing 9 to 1
When it comes to mobile web browsing, men outnumber women almost nine to one according to a new study released by browser development firm Opera Software. Opera reports that more than 88 percent of mobile web surfers worldwide are male--in addition, the majority of consumers accessing the mobile web via the firm's Opera Mini browser are between the ages of 18 and 27, with more than 14.7 million total users browsing 2.9 billion pages in May 2008 alone, a 23 percent increase since March. In all, Opera Mini served more than 43.2 million MB of data traffic in May, increasing 30.4 percent in two months' time.
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Posted by BB from MI | June 20, 2008 - 10:34am
It would not surprise me if this stat correlated directly with the number of men vs. women who read while in the bathroom. Mobile browsing has just eliminated the need to bring the newspaper in with you.
