Comments on: Opera Mini more popular than Netscape, statistics show

By: philry4n

philry4n — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:15:18 +0000

have you guys (with hitslink account) see the browser share statistics? it has a different system and doesn’t even have Opera Mini on it and Opera 9 only has 0.64% share…

By: Alexander Woodhouse

Alexander Woodhouse — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:57:18 +0000

Wow! That’s wonderful! I had no idea that Opera Mini was so popular.
I use it many times every day on my Nokia E61..and before this mobile I’ve used it on my SE Z800i and before that on my old SE K300. So I’ve used it since version 2 or something like that and I tested all Dimension betas when they came out.
I have to say that I’m really satisfied with Opera Mini 4, it works great on my Nokia E61.

What do you guys think about Mozilla and the Firefox Mobile that’s planned to be released next year? Will Opera have problems with FF Mobile?
Afterall, Firefox is a much more powerful brand than Opera.

By: rseiler

rseiler — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:55:14 +0000

I’m really not understanding the different looks on the site as described above, but it’s not a new phenomenon. When wasn’t it that way? The figures reported here for October, for example (http://operawatch.com/news/2007/11/opera-desktop-browser-experiences-substantial-growth-in-browser-market-share.html) do no jibe with the figures shown when visiting the site normally for that month. Is it possible the better Opera numbers as seen one way come from lumping in visits to My Opera, which, of course, would be skewed Opera’s way?

That aside, it would be more useful to put Mini in the context of other *mobile* browsers, wouldn’t it? Where’s that chart? How would it stack up against the iPhone? Who has the lion’s share in that market, Windows Mobile (IE)?

By: Grrblt

Grrblt — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:37:17 +0000

who cares about opera mini, opera for desktop has broken the 1%!

By: Øyvind Ø

Øyvind Ø — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:27:51 +0000

If you change the data range from november to november, you get pretty much the same results.

- ØØ -

By: Sesivany

Sesivany — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:07:33 +0000

When I’m logged into Hitslink via MyOpera I see “better” statistics. When I’m not logged I see just statistics FataL sent. I think it’s a little messy. But I believe better statistics because Opera Mini can’t have just 0.03%.

By: Investor

Investor — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:01:22 +0000

Ops, click on *Stan Loves Opera* on above link page to see stats

By: Investor

Investor — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:58:41 +0000

Btw. Is there a OM market share per country ?, like this example for desktop (all versions)
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=12&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=106&qpmr=300&qpdt=1&qpct=103&qpcustom=*4&qpob=MarketShare%20DESC&sample=1

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:54:03 +0000

philry4n, I’m not sure either why the stats are different. As I said above, even the stats from the previous months have change.

FYI: We’re contacting HitsLink/NetApplications to sort things out.

By: philry4n

philry4n — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:49:31 +0000

hmmm seing the help page at hitslink : http://www.hitslink.com/help/help.aspx?rid=125

and the help at marketshare.hitslink.com : http://marketshare.hitslink.com/help/help.aspx?rid=0

This report lists the market share of the top browsers in use. This data is derived by aggregating the traffic across our network of websites that use our service.

i don’t know why it has different results…

By: Fyrd

Fyrd — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:45:53 +0000

Yeah, I was pretty shocked too when I saw that page FataL is linking to…hopefully they’ll discover some error somewhere and fix it. Thanks for the screenshot Daniel, wouldn’t have thought to check their stats elsewhere.

By: Investor

Investor — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:42:57 +0000

Great job Opera Mini team, well deserved :up:

(Daniel, thanks for tip on how to access those stats)

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:40:46 +0000

FataL, there is something terribly wrong with those stats. Just take a look at the stats from the previous month, you’ll notice how Opera is shown to have a share of somewhere in the 0.50s, this isn’t consistent with what they posted last month. Look at my screenshots from the previous months.

Another indicator that those stats are erroneous. According to them, more people browser the web on the PlayStation than the Nintendo Wii Internet channel. I have no concrete data on this, but something tells me that it’s the opposite.

By: FataL

FataL — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:31:02 +0000

Hmmm... This page provide different data.