Sudan and Zimbabwe lead the top 10 African countries in terms of page-view growth (4908.2 % and 2321.6 % respectively), growth of unique users (1219.4 % and 1719.3 %) as well as the increase in data transferred (3672.6 % and 1449.5 %). Zimbabwe is also at the forefront when it comes to page views per user with 830 pages browsed by each user on average per month, almost double (436) the number of monthly pages that South African users visit on average per month. 

 

Social networking behemoth Facebook is vying against internet search giant Google for the attention of the continent’s mobile web browsers, with the former being the most visited site in 6 out of the top 10 countries (including SA with mxit.com placing 3rd), whilst Google placed number one in the remaining four countries. YouTube, Yahoo as well as Wikipedia also featured high on the list of mobile sites visited.

 

The world’s biggest phone maker, Nokia, is also quite popular in Africa for users of Opera Mini. When it comes to the top 10 handsets being used in each of the top 10 African countries, the entire top 10 list in 6 out of the 10 countries consisted of only Nokia phones.