The number of applications in the Opera Mobile Store has tripled in the year

Representatives of the Opera Mobile Store announced that over the past 12 months the number of apps in the store has grown by 3 times and reached 140 thousand. Currently, the number of users of the service is over 75 million per month. In store are applications and games for many of the existing operating systems, including Android, Java, BlackBerry, Symbian and iOS. In Russia, the monthly number of downloads of applications for the year increased by 3 times. During the first half of 2013 in the Opera Mobile Store has been a number of new features for users, developers and advertisers, help to increase the conversion rate of traffic in the number of downloads. In particular, an improved interface design Opera Mobile Store for Android devices with built-in "Recommendations" Opera browser for Android has enhanced the ratio of the number of visits to the number of downloads to 20%. In addition, users can now pay for purchases in the Opera Mobile Store directly from their account. During the past year significantly increased the proportion of Android apps in total downloads c Opera Mobile Store - from 18.4% to 38.4%. The share of Java-applications decreased from 67,8% to 43,9%, Symbian - c 10,3% to 9,9%, and Windows Mobile - from 1.9% to 0.4%. Gaming applications, HTML5-based platform for online gaming account for 2.6% of the total number of downloads from the Opera Mobile Store. Thus in Russia on applications for Android accounts for nearly half of all downloads, and Java-based applications - only 26.5%. It is noteworthy that a year ago the share of Android-and Java-applications was 27% and 53%, respectively.