Nigeria Becomes World’s 5th Largest Opera Mini User

Nigeria has become the 5th largest opera mini user in the world, according to the latest Opera State of the Mobile Web report for March 2011.

With this new record, Nigeria has displaced South Africa (now placed 7th) as the biggest opera mini user in Africa, as well as China, currently ranked 6th.

This is not the first time Nigeria is disrupting opera’s mobile web rankings. In March 2009, Nigeria broke into the top 10 countries, but has been unstable in its position, sometimes even dropping off the list.

Since September 2010 when Nigeria ranked 9th in the world, it has shown a steady growth. In November 2010, Nigeria surpassed the United States in opera mini usage.

Here’s a snapshot of Nigeria’s opera mini usage and growth since March 2010.

Opera’s recent report shows page view growth since March 2010 at 87.8 %, while unique user growth since March 2010 at 143.5 %. As per data transfer, Nigeria saw growth of 80.8 % compared to March 2010 and page views per user at 355. Data transferred per user (MB) was 5 and data transferred per page view (KB) stood at 14.

Top 10 sites in Nigeria in terms of unique users

1. facebook.com
2. google.com
3. yahoo.com
4. bbc.co.uk
5. wikipedia.org
6. goal.com
7. my.opera.com
8. vanguardngr.com
9. youtube.com
10. cnnmobile.com

The top sites visited in March 2011 didn’t change much compared to February 2011, except that Wikipedia.org was visited more than Goal.com in Nigeria.

Vanguard remained the 2nd most visited news site after BBC (and Nigeria’s most visited site on Opera Mini), thanks to it being on the default landing page of the opera mini browser.

From the report, Nokia devices dominated mobile browsing in Nigeria on the opera mini browser.

“Nigeria is a country to watch,” said Jon von Tetzchner, co-founder, Opera Software. “It will be very interesting to see whether its stint as the top African country for Opera Mini turns out to be one-off result or the beginning of a long-term trend for mobile browsing in Africa.”

Will Nigeria remain on the list of world’s top 5 in opera mini usage?

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