Opera Software has released statistics on the data consumption patterns among users of the Opera Mini, including those in India: while exact information is not available, the company says that there has been a 374.4% year-on-year increase in total number of pageviews among Opera Mini users in India. This could be on account of more handsets that have the browser installed, as well as increase in data consumption from users: the number of pageviews per user has varied between 330 pageviews per user and 398 (June 2010), so the growth is explained by an increase in the number of unique users with the Opera Mini browser, which has increased by 346.9% since June 2009. Interestingly, the top sports football site visited by Opera Mini users in June from India was Fifa.com. Globally, Goal.com topped the list, followed by Livescore.com In terms of data consumption - and this will please the mobile operators reading this - data consumption per user on the Mini has been 8 MB per user for May and June 2010. This is up from 6 MB per user last September. Opera hasn't disclosed how many Opera Mini browers were active during the month. In all, across the globe, 59.4 million people used Opera Mini in June 2010, and 27.3 billion pages were served. Africa Data Additionally Opera has shared some data related to Africa, particularly on account of the FIFA World Cup: - The top 12 countries using Opera Mini in Africa are South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana,…
