Opera: the mobile Internet in the course of political events in Egypt
In a fresh report about the mobile Internet company Opera Software has analyzed the traffic in countries where, in February occurred a radical change of government. Social networks have had a major impact on the course of the revolution, for example, in Egypt, where members of street events to actively use Facebook and Twitter to "field" of communication.
Opera Mini has millions of users in the Middle East. All traffic that passes through the Opera Mini, is compressed on servers Opera, so anonymous statistics of these servers can fairly accurately estimate the behavior of users of the mobile Web.
Egyptian opposition sites is usually low attendance have experienced enormous growth in interest during the event at the Cairo Tahrir Square. Some of them have retained the increased popularity in a few days after the resignation of Mubarak, but many returned to the still modest performance.
On January 28 and February 2, Egypt has been disconnected from the Internet. However, once access resurfaced, traffic to news sites, portals and social networks are quickly recovered, and some resources was even higher than before disconnecting.
Many argue that Facebook has become the main tool for organizing and planning of the protesters in Egypt, and Twitter is actively used to broadcast events in live mode. It is worth noting that Facebook has been very popular in Egypt before the revolution, although his attendance at the events on Tahrir Square has increased markedly. However, the popularity of Twitter has grown even more. Many sites, such as Al Jazeera, Youm 7, Masrawy, within a few days were not available to users from Egypt. The exception was the only Facebook: the period from January 28 to February 2, there was no day when the traffic to this resource through the Opera Mini was zero.
Top 10 Middle East countries with the highest number of users of Opera Mini are (in descending order): Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Syria, Oman and Israel.
General Data Report for the mobile Internet in February 2011:
Number of users of Opera Mini in February was 89.8 million. Per month, users watched 51.5 billion Web pages and servers Opera processed and subjected to compression, 7.3 petabytes of data. These figures are slightly lower than in January 2011 due to fewer days in February. Compared with February 2010, the number of unique users of Opera Mini grew by 77.5% and page views - at 113.6%
Number of users of Opera Mini in Russia for the year increased by 31.9%, page views - at 167.2%, while traffic grew by 122.9%. The average Russian has looked through a browser 825 Web pages per month volume of 14 KB. The most visited resources remain VKontakte, classmates and Yandex.
Ukrainians have been viewed an average of 925 Web pages per month. The number of users in this country for the year increased by 77%, page views - at 134% and traffic increased by 145.8%. The most popular sites of the Ukrainian users of Opera Mini are VKontakte, Google and Yandex.
Belarusians in the top three most visited resources included VKontakte, Yandex and classmates. Number of times using the Opera Mini web pages in Belarus for the year increased by 370.8%, traffic increased by 469.3% and the number of users - by 127.9%. On average, each user views 1,057 pages per month.
Opera Mini has millions of users in the Middle East. All traffic that passes through the Opera Mini, is compressed on servers Opera, so anonymous statistics of these servers can fairly accurately estimate the behavior of users of the mobile Web.
Egyptian opposition sites is usually low attendance have experienced enormous growth in interest during the event at the Cairo Tahrir Square. Some of them have retained the increased popularity in a few days after the resignation of Mubarak, but many returned to the still modest performance.
On January 28 and February 2, Egypt has been disconnected from the Internet. However, once access resurfaced, traffic to news sites, portals and social networks are quickly recovered, and some resources was even higher than before disconnecting.
Many argue that Facebook has become the main tool for organizing and planning of the protesters in Egypt, and Twitter is actively used to broadcast events in live mode. It is worth noting that Facebook has been very popular in Egypt before the revolution, although his attendance at the events on Tahrir Square has increased markedly. However, the popularity of Twitter has grown even more. Many sites, such as Al Jazeera, Youm 7, Masrawy, within a few days were not available to users from Egypt. The exception was the only Facebook: the period from January 28 to February 2, there was no day when the traffic to this resource through the Opera Mini was zero.
Top 10 Middle East countries with the highest number of users of Opera Mini are (in descending order): Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Syria, Oman and Israel.
General Data Report for the mobile Internet in February 2011:
Number of users of Opera Mini in February was 89.8 million. Per month, users watched 51.5 billion Web pages and servers Opera processed and subjected to compression, 7.3 petabytes of data. These figures are slightly lower than in January 2011 due to fewer days in February. Compared with February 2010, the number of unique users of Opera Mini grew by 77.5% and page views - at 113.6%
Number of users of Opera Mini in Russia for the year increased by 31.9%, page views - at 167.2%, while traffic grew by 122.9%. The average Russian has looked through a browser 825 Web pages per month volume of 14 KB. The most visited resources remain VKontakte, classmates and Yandex.
Ukrainians have been viewed an average of 925 Web pages per month. The number of users in this country for the year increased by 77%, page views - at 134% and traffic increased by 145.8%. The most popular sites of the Ukrainian users of Opera Mini are VKontakte, Google and Yandex.
Belarusians in the top three most visited resources included VKontakte, Yandex and classmates. Number of times using the Opera Mini web pages in Belarus for the year increased by 370.8%, traffic increased by 469.3% and the number of users - by 127.9%. On average, each user views 1,057 pages per month.
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