2011's Top Ten Mobile Websites viewed on Opera Mini

3. -RVM- posted on 01 Jan 2012, 15:13 0 0

Opera browsers (both Mobile and Desktop) are traditionally very popular in slavic countries (especially east slavic) for some reason...

4. AhmadAlsayegh posted on 01 Jan 2012, 15:33 1 0

It is a Norwegian software, makes sense i believe

5. ILikeBubbles posted on 01 Jan 2012, 17:46 0 0

if it's norwegian i like it.

must get now.

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9. -RVM- posted on 01 Jan 2012, 19:40 1 0

Norwegians are not slavic though :)

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10. AhmadAlsayegh posted on 01 Jan 2012, 20:35 0 0

but they are neighbors :)
they have more than 700 employees, so imagine those 700 people walking around and marketing using "word of mouth" channel...it starts from a dot, and it becomes a big circle soon
that's what i think

PS: I found good statistics, it shows many people using Opera in Norway, one of the highest Opera traffic in the world, i guess this proves my theory :)

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-NO-monthly-201012-201112

PSS: holy hell, more Slovak people are using Opera than Norwegian people! and in Russia it is even more than IE!

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-SK-monthly-201012-201112

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-monthly-201012-201112

In Belarus more than 50%:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-BY-monthly-201012-201112
my theory fails...lol!

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6. ILikeBubbles posted on 01 Jan 2012, 17:47 0 0

lol nah i think its pretty relevant. :) i'm a bit of a google-whore so i use chrome but i'm definetly going to look into opera mini now thank you!!

7. ILikeBubbles posted on 01 Jan 2012, 17:49 0 0

oh and while we're on the topic. what's the difference between opera mini and opera mobile or Verizon opera mini?

11. AhmadAlsayegh posted on 01 Jan 2012, 20:45 0 0

Found a useful article for you:

http://my.opera.com/operamobile/blog/2009/12/03/difference-between-opera-mobile-10-and-opera-mini-5

to summarize, Opera Mini would render the page on the server, compress it and then download it to your phone, while Opera Mobile would do the rendering on the phone itself, which requires more resource; and that should explain why Opera mini is usually used on the lower end phones

and about Verizon Opera, I believe it is just used for marketing:
http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2011/03/31/

btw, if you have an Andriod, you will be using Opera Mobile

14. Stuntman posted on 02 Jan 2012, 03:38 0 0

You need a better browser for those sites. So I've heard.