The Opera website browser developer has released its latest monthly 'State of the Mobile Web Report' and claims to have saved mobile internet users around the world £17.37bn ($27.4bn) per year on their data bills with its Opera Mini browser. The browser compresses up to 90% of website data, which saves on your handsets Mobile Broadband usage.

In September 2010, Opera Mini users generated over 535.3 Million Megabytes' (MB) of data for operators worldwide. Since August 2010, the data consumed went up by 9.4%. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 4.9 Petabytes' of data in September. Since September 2009, data traffic is up 135.8%.


The top 10 countries using Opera Mini in the European Union (EU) are the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, Italy, France, Czech Republic, Spain, Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia. From September 2009 to September 2010, page views in the top 10 countries of the EU increased by 58.4%, unique users increased by 10.3% and the amount of data transferred increased by 61.0%

Top 10 sites in the UK based on unique users (change from previous month)
1. google.com
2. facebook.com
3. bbc.co.uk
4. youtube.com
5. wikipedia.org
6. live.com
7. pocketgear.com
8. yahoo.com (up from 9)
9. my.opera.com (down from 8)
10. newsnow.net (back on the list)

Apparently UK mobile users now view 70.2% more web pages than a year ago (335 page-views) and consume just 7MB (MegaByte's) each month per user.

Opera's Monthly State of the Mobile Web:
http://www.opera.com/smw/