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March 18, 2010 · by Espen André Øverdahl

Guess what folks, we've doubled the download numbers in Europe after the Choice Screen rolled out. :eyes:

We are experiencing a dramatic uptake of downloads since the Choice Screen was launched in early March. On average, more than half of our downloads from Europe is a direct result from the Choice Screen.

The following numbers are the percentages of each country downloads of Opera 10.50 that originates from the Choice Screen, as part of the total Opera 10.50 numbers for desktop.

Country: Choice Screen increase: Choice Screen as % of total DL:
Poland 328% 77%
Spain 215% 68%
Italy 202% 67%
Denmark 198% 66%
Netherlands 157% 61%
Portugal 157% 59%
Belgium 123% 55%
France 117% 54%
Sweden 111% 53%
Switzerland 109% 52%
Greece 93% 48%
Austria 85% 46%
United Kingdom 85% 46%
Czech Republic 64% 39%
Germany 64% 39%
Norway 57% 37%
Hungary 53% 35%
European average 130% 53%

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  • Galileo18. March 2010, 13:53

  • Martin Myrseth18. March 2010, 13:54

    Impressive :smile:

  • Eivin d18. March 2010, 13:54

    Guess this is what we (Opera users) had expected.
    Good Job Guys

  • Charles Schloss18. March 2010, 13:54

  • z@h3k18. March 2010, 13:58

  • lwiczek18. March 2010, 14:00

  • Klemen18. March 2010, 14:01

    Where is Slovenia?

  • George Moga18. March 2010, 14:01

    Romania is the 7th country in the European Union in terms of population. Why wasn't it included in the statistic?

  • Moritz Hansen18. March 2010, 14:02

    And that´s just the beginning!

  • bendiik18. March 2010, 14:02

    Awesome!

  • Souvik Kumar18. March 2010, 14:03

    Great !

  • Davi de Assis18. March 2010, 14:06

    Awesome! :cheers:

  • sleepyhead18. March 2010, 14:18

    awww, germany is still so low, maybe because there were already a lot of people who used opera before?
    but over all a 130% increase is fantastic :up:

  • Skurch18. March 2010, 14:22

    Poland FTW :D

  • Serpher18. March 2010, 14:22

    Yeah Poland on the top :D :up:

  • Espen André Øverdahl18. March 2010, 14:24

    We are presenting data from the countries where we've conducted this analysis. We aim to provide data from additional countries later. The average figure is from the countries on the list.

  • Kamalesh18. March 2010, 14:25

    Very cool, but Opera up 57% in Norway? Nice to have a more leveled playing field; though I would've expected Opera to already have 95% browser share there, no? :wink:

  • Anton Tsigularov18. March 2010, 14:25

    There, that's a lot better. It wasn't at all clear in the text above.

  • Aux18. March 2010, 14:36

    So it's time to fix the bugs, right? Hope that 10.51 will be great!

  • Jani Sušnik18. March 2010, 14:37

    Any info about Slovenian market?

  • Adam Kaczmarek18. March 2010, 14:44

    Yeah, go Poland!

  • Daniele18. March 2010, 14:45

    Happy to know that! part of the download increase in Italy is thanks to me :D :lol:

  • Tamil18. March 2010, 14:45

  • Jakub Marton18. March 2010, 14:51

    There are several countries missing. Any info about them? Or there is no significant change? (I am particularly interested in Slovakia)Thanks.

  • Aleksander Aas18. March 2010, 14:56

    Originally posted by kubm:

    There are several countries missing. Any info about them? Or there is no significant change? (I am particularly interested in Slovakia)Thanks.


    We don't have the data yet :smile: We will do our best to get them published once they arrive!

  • Robert18. March 2010, 14:57

    :smile: :up: :cheers: :D :yes: :hat: :drunk: :wizard: :headbang: :love:

  • samMD18. March 2010, 15:20

    I want to see the numbers now that would be interesting

  • netwolf18. March 2010, 15:23

    Congrats!
    Now the only question is: how many users will continue using Opera after downloading and trying it...?

  • Luxor18. March 2010, 16:12

  • Abhinav18. March 2010, 16:19

    :up:

  • Aux18. March 2010, 16:21

    Around version 5-6 or something... Long time fan here! (29%)

    I'm one of those!

  • Ryan Alfino18. March 2010, 16:31

    after europe, asia next. :yes:

  • Diablotic18. March 2010, 16:40

    Polska kurwa!

  • ♥ Đào Trung Kiên ♥18. March 2010, 16:50

    Buồn ....buồn.....very buồn...........

  • serious18. March 2010, 16:50

    wd :yes: I'd like to know what people choose on the browser choice screen in general (like x% IE, x% FX, x% Opera, ...) :smile:

  • David Caceres18. March 2010, 17:06

    AWESOME!! Congratz!

  • IKoke18. March 2010, 17:23

    :cheers:

  • mirco-pi18. March 2010, 17:41

    Still it doesn't work with Facebook!
    the drop down menu of the privacy setting remain to be fixed!

  • jottosson18. March 2010, 17:46

    mirco-pi: which drop down menu? I just tried to find an error, but everything worked like a charm.

  • Rafael Luik18. March 2010, 17:53

    :up: :up: :up: :happy:


    Originally posted by jottosson:

    mirco-pi: which drop down menu? I just tried to find an error, but everything worked like a charm.


    That drop down menu. :o:

  • dirk18. March 2010, 18:23

  • d4rkn1ght18. March 2010, 18:24

    :cheers:

  • PozsonyiMark18. March 2010, 18:42

    Bravo! :hat:
    Go Poland!
    Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki. :cheers: :cheers:

  • L2D218. March 2010, 20:19

    Yay Opera.

    Europe, then the world.

  • Michal Pajor18. March 2010, 20:22

    This is awesome! Of course, the beasts in Poland know what the world's best browser is!

  • Michal Pajor18. March 2010, 20:22

    Originally posted by CsendesMark:

    Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki.



    Dobre

  • lwiczek18. March 2010, 20:34

    The question is - how will this affect the browser market share... :whistle:

  • kawiusz18. March 2010, 20:34

    Poland... impresive :smile:

  • Haavard18. March 2010, 20:43

    Go Poland! :D

  • Daniel James Hendrycks18. March 2010, 21:01

    :up:

About this article

Published inChoose Opera
DateMarch 18, 2010
AuthorEspen André Øverdahl
TagsChoice Screen, opera, beta, browser, campus crew, choose opera, chooseopera, community, contest, download, event, facebook
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