Opera’s August figures for mobile usage

Opera’s State of the mobile web report http://www.opera.com/smw/ for August once again shows an increase in mobile usage.

The report shows page views worldwide increasing by more than 14% and data transfers increasing by almost 10% from July. More than four million new Opera Mini users contributed to the jump, which is the largest gain in six months, there are now 66.5 million users of Opera Mini worldwide viewing over 33.9 billion mobile web pages a month.

Opera State of the Mobile Web August 2010 report - Pages Transcoded

Figures for the US and UK show not much has changed. The usual suspects are still there, BBC, Facebook, YouTube etc The only real change is the inclusion of Myspace back on the US top ten.

United Kingdom
■ Page-view growth since August 2009: 73.4 %
■ Unique-user growth since August 2009: 20.7 %
■ Page-views per user: 340

Top 10 sites in United Kingdom (unique users)
1. google.com
2. facebook.com
3. bbc.co.uk
4. youtube.com (up from 5)
5. wikipedia.org (down from 4)
6. live.com (up from 8)
7. pocketgear.com
8. my.opera.com (down from 6)
9. yahoo.com
10. ebay.co.uk

Top handsets for August 2010
1. Apple iPhone
2. Nokia 2330c
3. Sony Ericsson W395
4. BlackBerry 9700 “Bold”
5. BlackBerry 8520 “Curve”
6. Nokia 6700c
7. Nokia 6300
8. LG KE970 “Shine”
9. Nokia 2730c
10. Nokia 6303c

United States
■ Page-view growth since August 2009: 122.4 %
■ Unique-user growth since August 2009: 73.8 %
■ Page-views per user: 313

Top 10 sites in the United States (unique users)
1. google.com
2. facebook.com
3. youtube.com (up from 5)
4. yahoo.com (down from 3)
5. wikipedia.org (down from 4)
6. my.opera.com
7. bbc.co.uk (up from 9)
8. accuweather.com (down from 7)
9. nytimes.com (up from 8)
10. myspace.com (back on the list)

Top handsets for August 2010
1. Apple iPhone
2. BlackBerry 8330 “Curve”
3. BlackBerry 9700 “Bold”
4. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic
5. Nokia 3110c
6. BlackBerry 8520 “Curve”
7. LG VM265 “Rumor2”
8. Samsung SPH-M810 “Instinct S30”
9. Nokia 2700c
10. BlackBerry 9630 “Tour”