Opera, the company that has created the Opera Mini browser for mobile phones, released figures for July showing how the browser was used worldwide. Of course, this is just the view from one mobile browser, but it can give us a sense of how mobile web usage is growing. In July, 15.8 million people used Opera Mini, jumping 9.4 percent over June. Those users viewed more than 3.7 billion pages, representing a 15.9 percent jump over the previous month. On average, that translates to about 236 pages for each person.

Data Consumed: In July, Opera Mini users viewed more than 53.8 million megabytes of data worldwide. Compared to the previous month, that represents an increase of 15.2 percent. Because Opera Mini compresses pages by up to 90 percent, viewers actually would have consumed much more data, or about 538 million megabytes.

On international markets: The biggest jump in usage was seen in Poland, which jumped to 9th in list of the top 10 countries. Opera also spotlighted mobile web use in Latin America, where 80 percent of the phones are capable of running Opera Mini. Of the Latin American countries it surveyed, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was the top visited site, closely trailed by Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) Live Search.

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