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 [...]
After last month’s hiccup, yesterday Net Applications released its latest market share report for May 2008. Firefox showed a nice improvement in the April to May timeframe, going from 17.76% to 18.41% worldwide market share. Net Applications provides their own interpretation here.
The interesting part of the story is that while Firefox 3 continues to show [...]
We’ve known for a long time that several Firefox product pages (e.g., download.html) are closely tied with the Firefox user experience. What we didn’t previously know is exactly how closely our community’s interaction with www.mozilla.com speaks to Firefox’s global reach. As recently mentioned, we’ll soon have a much more structured dialogue around the international impact [...]
In thinking about broad questions such as “how do people use the internet?”, one very simple and curious problem solving approach would be considering how usage of the internet fluctuates (e.g., over time, by country, by web site, by segment of users, etc.). Whether the cause is something as simple as seasonal patterns (e.g., perhaps [...]
Just a quick update to yesterday’s story… after careful research, Net Applications has discovered the cause behind the anomaly in April’s data. They’ve issued an alert on their site and they’ll soon be re-releasing their market share data (some new numbers already appear here).
Thanks again to Phil and Vince of Net Applications for their concern [...]
