State of the Mobile Web, February 2011 March 24, 2011
Lately, we have seen the tremendous power of the Internet as a source of information and tool for social change. We witnessed the beginning of an uprising, which became a modern revolution. According to our analysis of Opera Mini usage, there was a sharp uptake in the use of the mobile Web in Egypt, which was not surprising, given the circumstances in that country during the month of February. Even more interesting, perhaps, is that we observed a sustained increase in traffic to certain sites in Egypt, even after events in the region stabilized. We believe more and more people are becoming accustomed to the Internet as their primary news source, and that is especially true for people who need instantly available and up-to-date information in hot spots around the world. Happy browsing! Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder, Opera Software
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Part 1: Revolution and the mobile Web Over the last couple of months, the world has been watching with great interest the astounding political changes occuring in the Middle East and North Africa — in countries such as Egypt, Tunisia, and now Libya. The people at the heart of these revolutions have been using the internet heavily, both as a means of organizing themselves in collective action as well as communicating their message to the world at large, garnering support from people in far away nations. Some believe that such rapid political change would not have been possible without the internet. The internet certainly provided a platform for those voices in the midst of conflict who might otherwise not have been heard. To get a down-to-earth perspective on the statistics presented here, Opera Software conducted an interview with one of the millions of protesters on the ground. Ayman Shokr, an engineer in Cairo, participated in the protests alongside thousands — all united towards a common goal, through technology. “The key success for the revolution was the way we connected, via Facebook and other social media via Internet, to mobile phones,” said Shokr. “It was a revolution based on communication.” As seen in the statistics from the Opera Mini servers, numbers corraborate the story from Shokr. Facebook usage increased with millions of page views and stayed high even after the large rounds of protests were over. With instant, global communication, the happenings in Tahrir Square were not limited to select media, as previously seen. Through the mobile devices and use of social websites, it became a person-to-person communication experience.
Protesters in Tahrir Square, photographed with mobile phone
“It was amazing how the whole world supported by Ayman Shokr us, thanks again to the many forms of communication that enabled us to be connected worldwide,” said Shokr. “After the revolution’s victory, it was incredible to hear the president of the United States say that we want our children to mirror the spirit and unity of Egyptian people and Berlusconi say that there is nothing new in Egypt, as Egyptians are used to making history. That’s the power of communication.” To read the rest of the interview, follow up the My Opera article at http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/ 2011/03/24/live-from-tahrir-square. In this month’s report, coinciding with our spotlight on mobile internet usage in the Middle East, we decided to take a closer look at some of the relevant sites visited by Opera Mini users in Egypt. We observed some interesting patterns and points of interest in the months of January and February. ■ Between January 28th and February 2nd, we can see the widespread effect of Egypt’s internet being cut off from the rest of the world. As soon as Egypt’s internet was restored, however, traffic to the news, portal, and social media sites recovered quickly and in some cases spiked even higher than the pre-cutoff levels. ■ Some believe that Facebook was instrumental in the planning and organization of the opposition movement in Egypt, and Twitter was certainly huge in terms of publicizing the movement’s activities in real-time. Facebook was already very popular in Egypt, and usage of Facebook certainly increased during and after the revolution. Twitter usage went up even more dramatically. ■ All of the sites highlighted in this section were impacted when Egypt’s internet was cut off from the rest of the world. Almost every site had days between January 28th and February 2nd where zero pages were
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served to Opera Mini users in Egypt. The lone exception was Facebook. Although significantly fewer Facebook pages were served during the blackout period, there were no days when Facebook access was cut off completely. ■ We see that a number of news sites — such as Al Jazeera, Aldostor, Al Masry Alyoum, Youm 7, and Shorouk News — showed significant page view increases both during and after the revolution. Masrawy, Egypt’s biggest online portal, also showed increased page views.
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Part 2: Growth In February 2011, 89.8 million people used the Opera Mini browser, 51.5 billion pages were served and 7.3 petabytes of operator data were compressed for Opera Mini users. (Due to February having fewer days, we expected and observed minor decreases in Opera Mini users, pageviews, and data transferred compared to January.)
Number of users In February 2011, Opera Mini had over 89.8 million users, a 0.6% decrease from January 2011. Since February 2010, the number of unique users has increased 77.5%.
Pages transcoded Opera Mini users viewed over 51.5 billion pages in February 2011. Since January, page views have gone down 1.6%. Since February 2010, page views have increased 133.6%.
Pages transcoded per month (billions)
Data consumed In February 2011, Opera Mini users generated over 790 million MB of data for operators worldwide. Since January, the data consumed went down by 1.7%. Data in Opera Mini is compressed up to 90%. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 7.3 petabytes of data in February. Since February 2010, data traffic is up 139.0%.
Total data consumed per month (millions of megabytes)
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Part 3: Country snapshots for February 2011 The Philippines passed the United Kingdom, Turkey and Kazakhstan in terms of total Opera Mini users in the month of February. Mexico is back on the list of top 20 countries.
Snapshot: Russia ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 167.2 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 31.9 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 122.9 % Page-views per user: 825 Data transferred per user (MB): 14 Data transferred per page view (KB): 17
Top 10 sites in Russia (unique users) 1. vkontakte.ru 2. odnoklassniki.ru 3. yandex.ru 4. mail.ru 5. google.com 6. wikipedia.org 7. tegos.ru 8. spaces.ru 9. youtube.com 10. my.opera.com
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 6300 2. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 3. Nokia 2700c 4. Sony Ericsson W800 5. Samsung S5230 6. Nokia N73 7. Nokia 6700c 8. Nokia 5310 XpressMusic 9. Nokia 5800d 10. LG KP500
Snapshot: Indonesia ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 34.0 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 40.5 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 52.3 % Page-views per user: 591 Data transferred per user (MB): 6 Data transferred per page view (KB): 10
Top 10 sites in Indonesia (unique users) 1. facebook.com 2. google.com 3. detik.com 4. youtube.com 5. twitter.com 6. wapdam.com 7. yahoo.com 8. wikipedia.org 9. kaskus.us 10. 4shared.com
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia C3 3. Nokia 2700c 4. Nokia E63 5. Nokia 2330c 6. Nokia 6300 7. Nokia N70 8. Nokia 2730c 9. Nokia 3120c 10. Nokia 5310 XpressMusic
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Snapshot: India ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 337.0 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 235.6 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 292.5 % Page-views per user: 429 Data transferred per user (MB): 7 Data transferred per page view (KB): 17
Top 10 sites in India (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. orkut.com 5. wikipedia.org 6. getjar.com (9) 7. yahoo.com (6) 8. zedge.net (7) 9. vuclip.com (10) 10. mobile2day.com (8)
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 2690 2. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 3. Nokia 2700c 4. Nokia 2730c 5. Nokia X2 6. Nokia 3110c 7. Nokia N70 8. Nokia 5233 9. Nokia 6300 10. Nokia N73
Snapshot: Ukraine ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 134.0 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 77.0 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 145.8 % Page-views per user: 925 Data transferred per user (MB): 18 Data transferred per page view (KB): 20
Top 10 sites in Ukraine (unique users) 1. vkontakte.ru 2. google.com 3. yandex.ua 4. spaces.ru 5. mail.ru 6. odnoklassniki.ru 7. wikipedia.org 8. my.opera.com 9. sasisa.ru 10. youtube.com
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 6300 3. Nokia 6233 4. Nokia 2700c 5. Nokia 6303i classic 6. Nokia N73 7. Nokia X2 8. Nokia 5310 XpressMusic 9. Nokia X3 10. Nokia 6303c
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Snapshot: China ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 22.2 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 37.5 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 91.2 % Page-views per user: 213 Data transferred per user (MB): 3 Data transferred per page view (KB): 16
Top 10 sites in China (unique users) 1. baidu.com 2. kaiqi.com (3) 3. google.cn (2) 4. taobao.com 5. qq.com 6. 3g3h.com (7) 7. 163.com (6) 8. sina.com.cn 9. tadu.com (new) 10. soso.com (9)
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 2. Nokia 5000 3. Nokia 2700c 4. Nokia 7100 5. Nokia 3208c 6. Nokia 2690 7. Nokia 2730c 8. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 9. Sony Ericsson W800 10. Nokia 220s
Snapshot: South Africa ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 118.3 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 61.2 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 107.8 % Page-views per user: 431 Data transferred per user (MB): 5 Data transferred per page view (KB): 11 Answers.com is back on the list after a 10-month absence.
Top 10 sites in South Africa (unique users) 1. facebook.com 2. google.com 3. wikipedia.org (4) 4. youtube.com (5) 5. dictionary.com (new) 6. zamob.com 7. my.opera.com 8. yahoo.com (9) 9. answers.com (back on the list) 10. twitter.com
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 2700c 3. Nokia 2330c 4. Samsung GT-S5233a 5. Nokia 2690 6. Samsung SGH-E250 7. Samsung SGH-E250i 8. Nokia 7100s 9. Nokia 5000d 10. Nokia 2710c
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Snapshot: Nigeria ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 82.2 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 90.3 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 80.8 % Page-views per user: 376 Data transferred per user (MB): 5 Data transferred per page view (KB): 14
Top 10 sites in the Nigeria (unique users) 1. facebook.com 2. google.com 3. yahoo.com 4. bbc.co.uk 5. goal.com 6. wikipedia.org 7. my.opera.com 8. vanguardngr.com 9. youtube.com 10. cnnmobile.com
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 2700c 3. Nokia 3110c 4. Nokia 2690 5. Nokia 2330c 6. Nokia N72 7. Nokia 2600c 8. Nokia N70 9. Nokia 6300 10. Nokia E63
Snapshot: Vietnam ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 322.7 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 167.1 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 239.5 % Page-views per user: 271 Data transferred per user (MB): 6 Data transferred per page view (KB): 22
Top 10 sites in Vietnam (unique users) 1. google.com 2. dantri.com.vn 3. youtube.com 4. vnexpress.net 5. wapdam.com 6. 24h.com.vn 7. zing.vn 8. vietbao.vn (9) 9. my.opera.com (8) 10. vatgia.com (back on the list)
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 2700c 2. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 3. Nokia 6300 4. Nokia 2690 5. Nokia 2730c 6. Nokia C3 7. Nokia 3110c 8. Nokia X2 9. Nokia 6500s 10. Apple iPhone
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Snapshot: United States ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 102.7 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 34.0 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 106.1 % Page-views per user: 421 Data transferred per user (MB): 9 Data transferred per page view (KB): 23
Top 10 sites in United States (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. wikipedia.org 5. yahoo.com 6. my.opera.com 7. accuweather.com 8. nytimes.com (back on the list) 9. twitter.com (8) 10. myspace.com
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Apple iPhone 2. LG VM265 “Rumor2” 3. BlackBerry 8520 “Curve” 4. LG VM510 “Rumor Touch” 5. BlackBerry 9700 “Bold” 6. HTC EVO 4G 7. BlackBerry 8330 “Curve” 8. BlackBerry 9630 “Tour” 9. Samsung SPH-M810 “Instinct S30” 10. BlackBerry 9000 “Bold”
Snapshot: Brazil ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 1244.3 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 505.3 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 1076.9 % Page-views per user: 362 Data transferred per user (MB): 7 Data transferred per page view (KB): 19
Top 10 sites in the Brazil (unique users) 1. google.com 2. orkut.com 3. live.com 4. youtube.com 5. globo.com 6. facebook.com (7) 7. twitter.com (6) 8. msn.com 9. uol.com.br 10. 4shared.com
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Sony Ericsson W800 2. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 3. Nokia C3 4. Nokia 220s 5. Nokia 7020 6. Nokia 2690 7. LG GT360 8. Motorola EX112 9. Nokia 2220s 10. Nokia 2730c
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Snapshot: Belarus ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 370.8 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 127.9 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 469.3 % Page-views per user: 1,057 Data transferred per user (MB): 23 Data transferred per page view (KB): 23
Top 10 sites in Belarus (unique users) 1. vkontakte.ru 2. yandex.ru 3. odnoklassniki.ru (4) 4. mail.ru (3) 5. google.com 6. tut.by 7. wikipedia.org 8. my.opera.com 9. spaces.ru 10. zaycev.net
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Sony Ericsson W800 2. Nokia 6300 3. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 4. Nokia 2700c 5. Nokia 6233 6. Sony Ericsson K750i 7. Samsung GT-S5230 8. Sony Ericsson K800i 9. Nokia 5310 XpressMusic 10. Nokia 6303c
Snapshot: Philippines ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 477.8 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 337.4 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 405.6 % Page-views per user: 710 Data transferred per user (MB): 10 Data transferred per page view (KB): 14
Top 10 sites in Philippines (unique users) 1. facebook.com 2. google.com 3. youtube.com 4. yahoo.com 5. friendster.com 6. wikipedia.org 7. symbianize.com 8. twitter.com 9. zedge.net 10. my.opera.com
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia N70 3. Nokia C3 4. Nokia 2700c 5. Nokia 2330c 6. Nokia 2730c 7. Nokia 6630 8. Nokia N73 9. Nokia 2690 10. Nokia 6300
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Snapshot: United Kingdom ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 95.8 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 35.3 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 96.4 % Page-views per user: 383 Data transferred per user (MB): 7 Data transferred per page view (KB): 20 Yahoo is back on the list after a 3-month absence.
Top 10 sites in United Kingdom (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. bbc.co.uk 4. youtube.com 5. wikipedia.org 6. live.com 7. my.opera.com 8. bing.com 9. mobile2day.com 10. yahoo.com (back on the list)
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Apple iPhone 2. Nokia C3 3. BlackBerry 8520 “Curve” 4. Nokia 2330c 5. BlackBerry 9700 “Bold” 6. Nokia 6700c 7. Nokia 2730c 8. BlackBerry 8900 “Curve” 9. Nokia 6303c 10. Nokia 6300
Snapshot: Kazakhstan ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 93.2 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 110.3 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 101.4 % Page-views per user: 337 Data transferred per user (MB): 4 Data transferred per page view (KB): 13
Top 10 sites in Kazakhstan (unique users) 1. mail.ru 2. google.com 3. vkontakte.ru 4. odnoklassniki.ru (5) 5. yandex.ru (4) 6. wikipedia.org (7) 7. my.opera.com (6) 8. youtube.com 9. tegos.ru 10. sasisa.ru
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 2700c 2. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 3. Nokia 6300 4. Nokia 6303i classic 5. Nokia 6303c 6. Nokia 6700c 7. Nokia 5310 XpressMusic 8. Nokia X2 9. Nokia 6500c 10. Nokia 2730c
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Snapshot: Turkey ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 523.5 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 283.6 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 422.7 % Page-views per user: 508 Data transferred per user (MB): 8 Data transferred per page view (KB): 16
Top 10 sites in Turkey (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. live.com (6) 5. maxicep.com 6. hurriyet.com.tr (8) 7. my.opera.com 8. resimmelodi.com (9) 9. milliyet.com.tr (new) 10. mobile2day.com (new)
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 2700c 3. Nokia 2730c 4. Nokia C3 5. Nokia 6300 6. Nokia 2330c 7. Nokia X2 8. Nokia 2690 9. Sony Ericsson W800 10. Nokia 6303i classic
Snapshot: Poland ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 134.4 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 32.1 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 112.5 % Page-views per user: 310 Data transferred per user (MB): 9 Data transferred per page view (KB): 31
Top 10 sites in Poland (unique users) 1. google.com 2. nk.pl 3. wp.pl 4. youtube.com 5. onet.pl 6. wikipedia.org 7. facebook.com (8) 8. allegro.pl (7) 9. chomikuj.pl 10. zapytaj.com.pl (new)
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia C3 3. Nokia 6300 4. Nokia 2700c 5. Samsung GT-S5620 6. Sony Ericsson K800i 7. Nokia X3 8. Apple iPhone 9. Nokia X2 10. Sony Ericsson K550i
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Snapshot: Kenya ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 100.2 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 80.9 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 148.4 % Page-views per user: 607 Data transferred per user (MB): 7 Data transferred per page view (KB): 12
Top 10 sites in the Kenya (unique users) 1. facebook.com 2. google.com 3. wikipedia.org (4) 4. youtube.com (back on the list) 5. yahoo.com (3) 6. wapdam.com (5) 7. bbc.co.uk 8. dictionary.com (new) 9. goal.com (8) 10. nation.co.ke
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 2330c 2. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 3. Nokia 1680c 4. Nokia 2700c 5. Nokia 2690 6. Nokia 2680s 7. Nokia 2730c 8. Nokia 2600c 9. Nokia 220s 10. Nokia C3
Snapshot: Egypt ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 187.7 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 139.9 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 230.1 % Page-views per user: 373 Data transferred per user (MB): 7 Data transferred per page view (KB): 19
Top 10 sites in Egypt (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. yahoo.com 5. bbc.co.uk (back on the list) 6. mobile2day.com (7) 7. youm7.com (new) 8. 100fm6.com (new) 9. my.opera.com (back on the list) 10. www.aljazeera.net (new)
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 2700c 3. Nokia 2690 4. Nokia N70 5. Nokia 2730c 6. Nokia 2330c 7. Nokia N73 8. Nokia 6300 9. Nokia 6120c 10. Nokia 6630
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Snapshot: Mexico ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 1653.3 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 411.2 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 1124.5 % Page-views per user: 407 Data transferred per user (MB): 6 Data transferred per page view (KB): 16
Top 10 sites in Mexico (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. live.com 5. wikipedia.org 6. my.opera.com 7. metroflog.com 8. mercadolibre.com.mx 9. yahoo.com 10. eluniversal.com.mx
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia C3 2. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 3. Sony Ericsson W800 4. Nokia 2220s-b 5. Nokia X3 6. BlackBerry 8520 “Curve” 7. Apple iPhone 8. Nokia 5530c 9. Nokia X2 10. Nokia 5310 XpressMusic
Snapshot: Bangladesh ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 236.1 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 151.7 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 215.3 % Page-views per user: 516 Data transferred per user (MB): 6 Data transferred per page view (KB): 12
Top 10 sites in the Bangladesh (unique users) 1. facebook.com 2. google.com 3. youtube.com (4) 4. espncricinfo.com (back on the list) 5. wapdam.com (3) 6. getjar.com 7. yahoo.com (5) 8. wikipedia.org (7) 9. my.opera.com (8) 10. dsebd.org
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 2700c 2. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 3. Nokia 2690 4. Nokia 3110c 5. Nokia 6300 6. Nokia N70 7. Nokia 2730c 8. Nokia X2 9. Nokia N73 10. Nokia 6120c
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Part 4: Regional spotlight — Middle East Highlights ■ The top 10 countries using the Opera Mini browser in the Middle East are Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Syria, Oman and Israel. ■ Some numbers: From February 2010 to February 2011, page views in the top 10 countries of the Middle increased by 233%, unique users increased by 142% and data transferred increased by 259%. ■ Growth rates in the Middle East: Iran and Jordan lead the top 10 countries of the region in terms of pageview growth (773.4 % and 210.2 %, respectively). Iran and Iraq lead the top 10 countries of the region in growth of unique users (279.1 % and 185.6 %, respectively). Iran and Egypt lead the top 10 countries of the region in growth of data transferred (1083.6 % and 230.1 %, respectively). Jordan leads the top 10 countries of the region in page views per user, with each user browsing 455 pages on average each month. ■ Google, Facebook, and YouTube are the top 3 sites in each of the top countries of the Middle East. Yahoo, the BBC, and Wikipedia are also popular in the region. ■ We looked at the top 10 handsets used in each of the top 10 countries in the Middle East. Out of the 100 total handsets listed, 92 of them were Nokia, 4 of them were Apple, 3 of them were Sony Ericsson and 1 was a BlackBerry.
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Snapshot: Egypt ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 187.7 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 139.9 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 230.1 % Page-views per user: 373 Data transferred per user (MB): 7 Data transferred per page view (KB): 19
Top 10 sites in Egypt (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. yahoo.com 5. bbc.co.uk 6. mobile2day.com 7. youm7.com 8. 100fm6.com 9. my.opera.com 10. www.aljazeera.net
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 2700c 3. Nokia 2690 4. Nokia N70 5. Nokia 2730c 6. Nokia 2330c 7. Nokia N73 8. Nokia 6300 9. Nokia 6120c 10. Nokia 6630
Snapshot: Iran ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 773.4 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 279.1 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 1083.6 % Page-views per user: 385 Data transferred per user (MB): 12 Data transferred per page view (KB): 31
Top 10 sites in Iran (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. bbc.co.uk 5. my.opera.com 6. yahoo.com 7. 4shared.com 8. yahoo.com 9. filestube.com 10. blogspot.com
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5800d 2. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 3. Apple iPhone 4. Nokia N73 5. Nokia 2700c 6. Sony Ericsson K800i 7. Sony Ericsson K750i 8. Nokia N70 9. Nokia 6120c 10. Nokia 6300
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Snapshot: Saudi Arabia ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 129.2 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 158.6 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 173.4 % Page-views per user: 335 Data transferred per user (MB): 8 Data transferred per page view (KB): 25
Top 10 sites in Saudi Arabia (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. my.opera.com 5. bbc.co.uk 6. yahoo.com 7. wikipedia.org 8. bdr130.net 9. live.com 10. filestube.com
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 2700c 3. Nokia 2330c 4. Apple iPhone 5. Nokia C3 6. Nokia 2690 7. Nokia 6120c 8. Nokia 5800d 9. Nokia N73 10. BlackBerry 8520 “Curve”
Snapshot: Libya ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 58.5 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 84.6 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 76.8 % Page-views per user: 351 Data transferred per user (MB): 7 Data transferred per page view (KB): 20
Top 10 sites in Libya (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. ketomob.com 5. nimbuzz.com 6. bbc.co.uk 7. yahoo.com 8. libyanyouths.com 9. getjar.com 10. aljazeera.net
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 2700c 3. Nokia 6120c 4. Nokia 6300 5. Nokia 2730c 6. Nokia N70 7. Nokia 2690 8. Nokia 7020 9. Nokia N73 10. Nokia X3
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Snapshot: Iraq ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 144.7 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 185.6 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 146.7 % Page-views per user: 174 Data transferred per user (MB): 4 Data transferred per page view (KB): 25
Top 10 sites in Iraq (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. yahoo.com 5. kooora.com 6. wikipedia.org 7. bbc.co.uk 8. my.opera.com 9. ganges.com 10. dictionary.com
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 2700c 3. Nokia 6120c 4. Nokia 6300 5. Nokia X2 6. Nokia 2690 7. Nokia 6303i classic 8. Nokia N73 9. Nokia 6303c 10. Nokia N70
Snapshot: Jordan ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 210.2 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 175.8 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 184.6 % Page-views per user: 455 Data transferred per user (MB): 7 Data transferred per page view (KB): 16
Top 10 sites in Jordan (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. yahoo.com 5. brg8.com 6. bdr130.net 7. wikipedia.org 8. live.com 9. dictionary.com 10. jordanweather.jo
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 2700c 3. Nokia 2330c 4. Nokia 2690 5. Nokia 6300 6. Nokia X2 7. Nokia C3 8. Nokia X3 9. Nokia N70 10. Nokia 6500s
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Snapshot: Qatar ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: -11.7 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 32.1 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: -17.4 % Page-views per user: 279 Data transferred per user (MB): 5 Data transferred per page view (KB): 18
Top 10 sites in Qatar (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. yahoo.com 5. wikipedia.org 6. bbc.co.uk 7. ekantipur.com 8. my.opera.com 9. wikipedia.org 10. dictionary.com
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 2700c 3. Nokia 2690 4. Nokia 2330c 5. Nokia 6120c 6. Apple iPhone 7. Nokia 6300 8. Nokia 2730c 9. Nokia X2 10. Nokia C3
Snapshot: Syria ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: -34.6 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: -64.0 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: -73.0 % Page-views per user: 343 Data transferred per user (MB): 2 Data transferred per page view (KB): 7
Top 10 sites in Syria (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. live.com 5. wapland.org 6. syria-news.com 7. kooora.com 8. yahoo.com 9. my.opera.com 10. getjar.com
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 6500s 2. Nokia 6300 3. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 4. Nokia 5610d 5. Nokia 5310 XpressMusic 6. Nokia 2700c 7. Nokia 5800d 8. Nokia 3120c 9. Nokia X3 10. Nokia 7610
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Snapshot: Oman ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: 72.0 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: 56.4 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: 83.2 % Page-views per user: 234 Data transferred per user (MB): 7 Data transferred per page view (KB): 30
Top 10 sites in Oman (unique users) 1. google.com 2. youtube.com 3. facebook.com 4. my.opera.com 5. bbc.co.uk 6. live.com 7. vuclip.com 8. ketomob.com 9. s-oman.net 10. filestube.com
Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic 2. Nokia 2700c 3. Nokia 6120c 4. Nokia E66 5. Nokia 2330c 6. Nokia E71 7. Nokia 2690 8. Nokia N73 9. Nokia E72 10. Nokia E52
Snapshot: Israel ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Page-view growth since February 2010: -0.4 % Unique-user growth since February 2010: -8.9 % Data transfer growth since February 2010: -10.8 % Page-views per user: 300 Data transferred per user (MB): 6 Data transferred per page view (KB): 21
Top 10 sites in Israel (unique users) 1. google.com 2. facebook.com 3. youtube.com 4. ynet.co.il 5. my.opera.com 6. odnoklassniki.ru 7. wikipedia.org 8. walla.co.il 9. vkontakte.ru 10. one.co.il
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Top handsets for February 2011 1. Nokia 2730c 2. Apple iPhone 3. Nokia 5800d 4. Nokia X3 5. Sony Ericsson W995 6. Nokia 2323 classic 7. Nokia E71 8. Nokia 3120c 9. Nokia C3 10. Nokia N95
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