Spectator is finally live on AMO. Spectator is a Firefox extension that collects data about how Firefox is used. This information is used to better understand what people value in the browser.
We’ve taken a lot of time to strike a balance between helpful data and privacy. If you would like to contribute to usability at […]
In the following graphs, each bar represents one of the top 100 extensions, by usage. The high of the bar is comparing relative usage. I.e. the most used extensions have the highest bars. Positive bars are compatible (blue), non-positive are not compatible (red).
Top 100 extensions claiming beta support (3.0b*, blue), non beta support (3.0b* red)
Top […]
A few months ago, we provided some initial analysis about how Firefox usage varies by day of the week (e.g., Wednesday vs. Saturday). We’ve since attempted to improve upon that analysis by making sure we’re accounting for everything in our statistical equation, allowing us to correctly isolate certain effects. For example, there is […]
Before turning to the business of Mozilla metrics, I wanted to take a moment to thank all of my fans and well wishers for their kind words yesterday. I don’t want to distract them too much, as I know they are feverishly working on making the 2nd annual Ken Kovash Day even more special.
Update: […]
Polvi and I have been following the release of Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows, for a couple reasons. First, it’s a fresh and great approach to open source marketing – open pricing! Second, their process has some flavors of our funnelcake project. For In Rainbows, they’re considering the path of fans as: […]
We know that internet usage (as well as Firefox usage) sees a good deal of fluctuation based on seasonality. We’ve also historically noticed that the day of the week affects usage of the internet (or number of people using the internet, depending on your definition of usage).
Thinking about this latter trend, I decided to […]
Google trends has always fascinated me. While it is pretty unscientific, I found it interesting to compare searches on iPod, to searches on Firefox.
(red is ipod, blue is firefox)
I wonder how much it would change things if we got our “News reference volume” equal to that of the iPod.
Has anyone else found interesting mozilla trends […]
Hello — We are the team at Mozilla focused on collecting, analyzing, and sharing various metrics about our products.
Ken Kovash, The Numerator (a.k.a. Analytics Manager)
Ken joined the Mozilla team after spending a few years at the University of Chicago (both as an MBA student and a post-grad economic researcher). Passionate about the quantitative aspects of […]
