TechStarz

It has hardly been five days now for Opera 9.5 being released, the statistics reported by Opera Watch are just amazing. Opera hits more than 4.7 million downloads that’s almost a million download a day. And active opera are detected on around 20 million desktops & Opera Mini has been raised to 12 million mobiles.

Here are the key statistics provided by Opera Watch:

  New usage figures are out as well, and they look just as good, with more than 20 million users running the desktop browser, and 12 million running Opera Mini. That’s twice the number of users they had when Opera 9.0 appeared two years ago.

  To put these numbers in perspective:
  # Nearly one-fourth of Opera users downloaded the new release within the first five days.
  # Opera Mini has more than half as many users as Opera Desktop.
  # More people use Opera Desktop each month than live in the state of New York.
  # More people use Opera Mini each month than live in Greece