NEW DELHI, INDIA: Opera software has announced the trends in mobile web behavior of Opera Mini users in India.
The top 10 sites continued to be similar to 2009, where Google and Orkut continue to lead the list. For the first time, Facebook overtook Orkut and is placed at #2 in the most visited domains since October 2010
According to the release, the global stats showed a clear increase in the number of visits to Amazon.com using Opera Mini towards the end of the year, compared to earlier in 2010.
In India, Amazon.com stands tall at #17 in the most visited domains of 2010. It was not present in the top 50 most visited domains from India list in 2009. In the past one year, traffic towards Amazon.com by Indian Opera Mini users has increased by 150 percent.
“It is not hard to imagine the benefits of the full Web right at your fingertips when shopping in a crowded store,” said Jon von Tetzchner, co-founder, Opera Software
Tetzchner added, “'Is this TV on sale really a good offer, or can I get a better deal online? What are people saying on the Web about the advantages of this computer model compared to the more expensive one?' Full access to the Web via Opera Mini--even under difficult conditions such as crowded cellular networks--puts power back in the hands of the consumers.”

Opera Mini global statistics:
In December 2010, Opera Mini had over 85.5 million users, a 6.8 percent increase from November 2010. Since December 2009, the number of unique users has increased 84.7 percent.
Opera Mini users viewed over 46.7 billion pages in December 2010. Since November, page views have gone up 4.6 percent.
Since December 2009, page views have increased 125.5 percent. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 6.5 petabytes of data in December.
Shoppers are returning to the mobile Web after a long decline. In March 2010, Opera Mini users reversed the downward trend shopping sites have seen in the later years, and usage spikes are easily seen on the big shopping days of the year.