A couple months ago, we speculated on what the Firefox 3 universe would look like approximately one month after launch. In that analysis, we took our download and usage numbers from the time period following Firefox 2’s launch in 2006 and extrapolated from there. We’re now exactly one month removed from Download Day, so we [...]
Many of us at Mozilla and within the Mozilla community were excited when Stephen Colbert gave Firefox 3 his “Colbert Bump” on the day of Firefox 3’s launch (a big thanks to Jonathan Zittrain). You can watch the video here.
Download Day was a wild success, and we were happy to share some thanks and credit [...]
We recently looked at the spike in activity of Firefox related search terms on Download Day. Following up on that post, I wanted to find other interesting ways to put the launch into perspective. For example, looking at “Firefox” on Google Trends shows us that traffic of firefox was off the charts during launch – [...]
Mic recently shared a few words of congratulations with our localizers and translators around the globe who helped make the Firefox 3 launch a great success. As a follow-up, I wanted to spell out a few numbers associated with the impact and success of these contributions:
about 73% of downloads since launch have been from users [...]
Polvi previously highlighted some interesting Firefox related search patterns via Google Trends. With the recent launch of Firefox 3, we thought it’d be wise to update that analysis. Internally, we could see that web traffic to www.mozilla.com spiked by a wild factor on Download Day and that traffic coming in through our search engine marketing [...]
Putting yesterday’s story in some perspective…
In the first full month after Firefox 2’s launch, Firefox 2’s worldwide market share had reached 3.62%. It was indeed a wild success. So, what about the launch of Firefox 3?
We’re only about 24 hours in, and Fx3 has already surpassed the point Fx2 reached at the one month mark! [...]
Net Applications has built hourly tracking into their service just to follow Firefox 3 during download day. Click below to see where the worldwide market share of Firefox 3 currently stands. It’s growing by the minute!
Mozilla recently engaged in a press tour supporting the upcoming launch of Firefox 3. Last week, we sensed that the buzz and anticipation surrounding the launch was reaching crazy heights; but from a statistical standpoint, the effects of PR efforts such as this can sometimes be difficult to quantify. However, we recently noticed one unusual [...]
John Lilly highlighted a milestone a few months back when we reached 50 million active daily Firefox users. Now, just more than four months later, we’ve surpassed 60 million active daily users. Wow!
What’s perhaps most shocking is that the percentage growth of Firefox usage has continued, all the while our base number has become substantially [...]
Since Download Day was announced (just a few days ago), it’s been fun to watch in real-time the way Firefox community members around the globe have embraced it. We’ve already seen pledges from community members across more than 200 countries (or regions)! In addition, I thought it’d be interesting to see how the early number [...]
