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Opera Mini usage jumps to 0.39% of overall browser market share

Published October 1st, 2007 1:45 AM EDT By Daniel Goldman

According to the browser stats published by HitsLink, Opera Mini had 0.39% of the entire browser market share in the month of September – including desktop browsers.

The increase to 0.39% is a significant increase over the previous month. In the month of August, Opera Mini had 0.27%. (See Opera Mini’s growth over the months)

I’m still impressed of the showings of Opera Mini, a mobile browser, among the desktop browser big shots. We’re talking about the entire browser market (Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox, Safari, etc.); how many millions of users does 0.39% add up to?

I bet with the upcoming release of Opera Mini 4 that we’ll see an even bigger traction of Opera Mini.

Keep spreading Opera Mini!


(Opera Mini stats for the month of September - Source: HitsLink)

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  1. 1 csulok Oct 1st, 2007 at 3:02 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Linux Linux

    what’s interesting on the piechart is that the 78% is tagged microsoft internet explorer, which was last used for internet explorer 6, ie7 runs under the name windows internet explorer given that it’s no longer available for mac.

    so what does that 78% represent? both? ie6?

  2. 2 gast 08-17 Oct 1st, 2007 at 4:52 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    Yes that’s impressive. Oh - not the .39% of Opera mini. But this: If you belive, that this statistics are ok, than you had to belive the .87% of Opera (for PCs) usage too. Oh of course, i forgot … THIS number is only a result of Opera’s user agent mimicry ;) [i don't belive that]. With the release of the free Opera there were forecasts up to 10% of usage.

    [Sorry for my bad English.]

  3. 3 WildEnte Oct 1st, 2007 at 8:22 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    I believe most Opera Mini users are also using Opera desktop. Users of Opera desktop are usually informed about what browsers are available, and if they choose to browse using their mobile phone, know about Opera Mini. If Opera Mini is making big progress with people that do not yet use Opera desktop, I believe that some of those Mini users will try Opera on the desktop and thus increase the desktop usage, which doesn’t really happen for all I see here.

    Nevertheless, Opera Mini is certainly easier to spread than Opera Desktop. Using a mobile phone to browse the web in public does attract interest in bystanders, and probably sooner or later Opera Mini will have that critical mass to promote itself. Some aggressive marketing can’t harm though.

  4. 4 opera11 Oct 1st, 2007 at 9:12 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    Just half year and will 1% :)

  5. 5 brychan Oct 1st, 2007 at 10:40 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    I have just had to reload opera mobile on 2 devices as usage period had expired but the new beta does not include single column and frankly fit to screen does not work very well without that. whats happned to it ?

  6. 6 Daniel Goldman Oct 1st, 2007 at 10:57 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    @gast 08-17: Why the negative tone?

    @WildEnte: I believe Opera Mini and Opera for desktop will help each other. It’s certainly easier to spread Opera Mini, since there’s a void in the mobile browser arena. However, once people hear of Opera Mini, the name ‘Opera’ wouldn’t be so foreign to them (even on the desktop).

  7. 7 FataL Oct 1st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    This are stats of one of the greatest technical sites of Russian Internet (RuNet) - 3dnews.ru

    Explorer 6 34.5%
    Opera 9 24.1%
    Firefox 2 19.2%
    Explorer 7 15.4%
    Opera Mini 1.6%
    Opera 8 1.6%
    Firefox 1 1.5%

  8. 8 pejakm Oct 1st, 2007 at 1:17 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    Take a look at my blog post here:
    http://my.opera.com/pejakm/blog/linuxopoll

  9. 9 Phlexonance Oct 1st, 2007 at 2:22 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    I just can’t believe these statistics.
    IE is way too high and Opera too low.

  10. 10 Investor Oct 1st, 2007 at 6:19 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    @Phlexonance : “… I just can’t believe these statistics. IE is way too high and Opera too low… ”

    Oh, desktop share IS low… revenue only $ 3 mill. per quarter… bucks don’t lie ;)

    Indeed, nice to see Mini growing, but to rule mobile browser market, Opera needs to release v.9… make press and people forget iPhone, Nokia S60, and PIE browsers ;)

    Agree with @WildEnte… Opera desktop should benefit from Mobile and Wii success, but stats say, not so…

  11. 11 Yehudah Goldstein Oct 3rd, 2007 at 6:45 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    Actually there are much more mobile phones than PCs so this percentage is… eh

  12. 12 muph Oct 6th, 2007 at 9:26 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    Opera desktop has gotten more users according to Opera, so it must be benefiting in some way.

  13. 13 Johann Oct 30th, 2007 at 11:07 am
    using Mozilla Mozilla 1.7.12 on Windows Windows XP

    I think that browser stats are all over the place for the smaller browsers. For example, on my sites, I have more people using PlayStation Portable than Opera Mini.

  14. 14 közös képviselet Nov 7th, 2007 at 2:47 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 on Windows Windows XP

    This are stats of one of the greatest technical sites of Hunarian Internet (Hungary) - index.hu

    Explorer 6 42.5%
    Firefox 2 25.9%
    Opera 9 18.1%
    Explorer 7 12.4%
    Opera 8 1.6%

    I dont underst the people what like IE.

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