Opera a leading web browser company has given a  report on the usage of their Opera Mobile Browser.

Opera Mini has become the world’s most popular mobile browser. Since its worldwide launch in 2006, more than 44 million people have downloaded and used Opera Mini. More than 11.9 million people used Opera Mini in March 2008.

According to their report

• Social networking is popular worldwide and is the leading source of Web traffic for mobile devices.
• Successful sites on the Web find users on mobile phones, further underscoring the emergence of One Web.
• 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.

Snapshot: India

• India favors social networking, with nearly half (48.9%) of all traffic going to social networks.

Top 10 sites in browsed in Opera Mobile in India

1. www.orkut.com
2. www.google.com
3. in.m.yahoo.com
4. www.peperonity.com
5. gallery.mobile9.com
6. www.mocospace.com
7. www.160by2.com
8. www.mobango.com
9. www.itsmy.com
10. www.indianrail.gov.in

The report shows that Orkut has been used top of all other sites by Indians, even than Google !!! What you think about this?