Worldwide mobile browsing report: Socionets rule the web, What do Indians surf on the mobile?
Opera has just released it’s market wise report on usage of mobile browser and here are a few interesting findings for India:
Around 48.9% of traffic from Indian Opera users goes to social networking sites and the top 10 sites Indians visit on their mobile phone are:
- www.orkut.com
- www.google.com
- in.m.yahoo.com
- www.peperonity.com
- gallery.mobile9.com
- www.mocospace.com
- www.160by2.com [review]
- www.mobango.com
- www.itsmy.com
- www.indianrail.gov.in
Mixed trend, right? Worldwide trend is pretty much the same, i.e.:
- Social networking is popular worldwide and is the leading source of Web traffic for mobile devices.
- Consumers desire a rich Web experience regardless of the device they use to access the Web. WAP continues to diminish as more-capable Web browsers are able to display full Web content on mobile phones.
- Nearly a quarter of all traffic is headed to content portals or search engines.
What’s your opinion on the mobile Internet trend in India? Is there a demand-supply gap?
Do we have enough capacity that can bring down the gprs price?
Related Read: Stats on Mobile Internet in India, What do people search on their mobile?
Check out the stats for other countries
About the author - Ashish Sinha is a Startup Mentor/Product Strategy Coach, and the founder/chief editor of pluGGd.in.
He has launched/managed couple of products (consumer as well as enterprise) in US and India, and now consults with startups/small businesses on their product/media strategy. He can be reached at: ashish (at) pluGGd.in [+91 98452 06443]
