CHANDIGARH, INDIA: Opera Mini has garnered more than 41.7 million users worldwide showing a 5.3 per cent jump compared to the previous month, according to the State of the Mobile Web report for November 2009.

The number of page-views in November 2009 went up 9.5 per cent and data consumption increased 8.3 per cent compared to the previous month. In Africa, Facebook has taken a strong lead and ranks as the most popular site in 6 out of the top 10 countries.

The report, published monthly, provides information on the top global trends affecting the mobile Web. In addition to the top global trends and country snapshots, the report highlights trends in Africa and examines regions of fastest growth of Opera Mini, said a press release.

Global trends:

* In November 2009, more than 41.7 million people used Opera Mini, a 5.3 per cent increase from October 2009 and more than 154 per cent compared to November 2008.

*Those 41.7 million people viewed more than 18.8 billion pages in November 2009. Since October, page-views have gone up 9.5 per cent. Since November 2008, page-views have increased 231 per cent.

*Opera Mini users generated over 285 million megabytes of data for operators worldwide in November 2009. Since October, the data consumed went up by 8.3 per cent. Data in Opera Mini is compressed up to 90 per cent. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 2.6 petabytes of data in November. Since November 2008, data traffic is up 213 per cent.

* The top 10 countries for Opera Mini usage (in order):  Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam and Poland.

Trends in India:

*Page-view growth since November 2008: 228.5 per cent

*Unique-user growth since November 2008: 208.4 per cent

*Page-views per user: 336

*Data (compressed) transferred per user (MB): 7

*Data (compressed) transferred per page view (KB): 20