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A: Yes. And your Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS or almost any connected device and mobile phones. Opera Mobile oftens comes preinstalled from the manufacturers, but if it doesn't you can install Opera Mini which runs on nearly all phones.
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A: -- Opera on your computer
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because there are only 36 sites that aren’t blocked in iran?
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Or they use mobile browsers more and opera happens to be one of them?
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that’s funny..
cause the Iranian President’s official blog used IE-Only technologies. It wouldn’t render at all in Firefox or Opera. I’m not sure if it’s changed yet either.
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Because they are the only one who understand that Opera is the greatest browser on earth…
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Because they think that IE is going to monitor their browsing? And are right haha…
Most likely it is the mobile browsing though like Simon said…
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because iranian loves to go to opera.com with their IE + alexa toolbar?
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Probably mobile browsing. I’m not sure why Iran is so prominent in the statistics tho.
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Which means Opera should enhance it’s BiDi support not only in Desktop, but finally add it to Mobile and Mini!
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Considering 82% of hits to opera.com is either to my.opera.com or our file servers, I’d assume the ranking is based on the Opera Community’s popularity in Iran.
But then again, I may be biased.
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Thats a very good point.. Is there even an Alexa option that works with Opera??? Maybe theres only a very small number of Iranian users who have Alexa installed.. Which gives Iran a very small number of websites that are visited?
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Because Opera is not american
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Well now it’s number 34, the first spot is soon ours
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Now is the 34., already!
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” Where people go on Opera.com: my.opera.com - 60% ”
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=opera.com
Welcome…
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olekasper, you’re correct. The traffic ranked to opera.com includes all subdomains, including my.opera.com — the Opera Community site.
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philry4n, you make a very good point. I wonder how Alexa get their data for Opera users. Since the Alexa toolbar doesn’t work in Opera, as mentioned above.
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hi i am work opera 4years
and i am iranian that site is good
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@babox: you might have a point. Of the big four, IE, Firefox, and Safari are all based in the USA. And Iran isn’t exactly friendly toward us right now.
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Maybe because less people use the internet in Iran, and so the people who use it are more technolgically savvy so are more likely to try out new browsers like Firefox and Opera?
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That’s odd. HitsLink says I get no visits from Iran, even though it registers hits from the other Web censored countries: China (10th country by number of visits!), Vietnam (33rd), Egypt (39th), Cuba (46th), Tunisia (58th), Saudi Arabia (60th), Belarus (75th).
And even though at least one Iranian friend visits me with persistence
(thanks, Fatima).
Also missing from my list are North Korea, Syria, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan.
Can anyone see MyOpera hits from Iran ?
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UPDATE: I found a user who sees them
And a small correction: the list shows countries by number of unique visitors, not visits.
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From the top 500 sites I have only visited 15, or 3%, so far this year!
Glad to see
http://sourceforge.net/index.php
at 94.
Re Iran: Should Opera concentrate on developing markets more than established areas, such as the States and UK?