Nigeria Hits The Top 10 List of Opera Mini Users Worldwide
A look at the latest Opera State of the Mobile Web report (March 2009) shows that Nigeria has displaced Germany to become the world’s 10th country with the most Opera Mini users. Back in September 2008, Egypt displaced Germany to become the second African country behind South Africa to join the top 10 countries.
At the time, Kenya and Nigeria Opera Mini users were surging, and we predicted that the mobile web will replace traditional web in Nigeria. With this report, Nigeria is now the 2nd African country behind South Africa (placed at 6th) to join the top 10 countries. Also noteworthy is the fact that Nigeria’s Opera Mini page-view growth since March 2008 was 4,322% with page-views per user at 324. Unique-user growth since March 2008 was 1,472%.
The report also indicated that Facebook is the preferred social-networking site in Nigeria, while Nairaland, the largest Nigerian forum site, is popular among Opera Mini users.
And finally, more than users from any other top 10 country, Nigerians are likely to be browsing with Opera Mini between 4am and 8am.
But the question is: Will Nigeria stay on the top 10 list and possibly move up next month to displace Poland, UK, USA or South Africa?
With the surge of Opera Mini usage in the last few months (in terms of unique-user growth and page-view stats) as well as the increasing mobile web penetration in Nigeria, I think Nigeria could stay on the top 10 list this month and possibly edge out Poland and UK. It’ll also be interesting to see Nigeria on the number 1 position by December 2009.
Stats Via Opera
More interesting would be the ISPs and devices used to browse the mobile web.
@Dejo - Yeah, you’re right! Apparently Nokia is mostly used for mobile web browsing in Nigeria. As per ISPs such as mobile operators, I’m really not sure, but my guess is that Zain gives more mobile web access.
Now that Zain is offering just N1,000 monthly Internet access for their mobile subscribers, and being the 2nd largest mobile operator in Nigeria (in terms of subscribers), we’d see more mobile web penetration in the next couple of months.
Interesting, at least one top stats about 9ija that isnt depressing! on its own….I mean.
I’m an Opera user myself… Sweet!