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careful with your statistics
The latest set of statistics published on mobile data use leaves me with more questions than answers. The headline says that the iPhone accounts for 67% of mobile web traffic.
Slightly more useful is the market share graph, though any time I look at statistics from this particular source I get confused.
The listed platforms are; iPhone, Java ME, Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian, Palm, Other. This begs the questions:
- What geographical area?
- Is RIM/Blackberry listed under "Java ME" or "Other"?
- If Blackberry = Java ME, what else is listed there?
- Where are browsers written in Java ME, such as Opera Mini and BOLT? Are they distributed across Blackberry, Android, WinMob, Symbian, and Other? Or are they all in Java ME?
- Is this page requests or data or something else? That sure would make a difference, especially with transcoders out there reducing data going to other phones.
Among other things, Opera Mini is reporting a 315% year-on-year increase in their mobile traffic. Since they were pretty popular a year ago, that's huge. And the implied increase in all mobile traffic doesn't match up with my understanding of mobile traffic from sources like AdMob.
The summary: make sure you understand the mobile space before diving into these statistics or trying to create your own.
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Here we go:
So these stats are presumably valid for “share of mobile Javascript-rendering devices”. That’s where Opera Mini went, and most of the Blackberries. By default, Blackberries have Javascript off (or they did; I don’t know if this is still true).
Comment by Barbara — March 3, 2009 @ 4:57 pm