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Firefox Hits 25% Market Share on its Birthday
At the very same moment in time that Firefox celebrates its 5th birthday, Firefox has also surpassed 25% worldwide market share for the very first time. This news comes from Net Applications’ report for the week of November 1st (their weekly data requires a subscription). Congrats everyone! For those interested in “before and after” pictures, below... »
Predicting Firefox Growth
Our Metrics intern, Eric Hergenrader, did some terrific work analyzing fluctuations in Firefox usage. Using a linear regression, he found that this summer’s decline in Firefox use was largely in line with expectations; a 2-3% decline in July and August is typical. In addition to seasonality, Eric found that three factors driving usage drops... »
Firefox Market Share – Sept 2009
September’s market share numbers are out and Firefox enjoyed a positive month. While we’re still collecting numbers from a couple valuable sources (Gemius, Wikipedia), reports are readily available from both StatCounter and Net Applications (for a primer on the different sources, please read this previous post). Emerging from the summer months, both reports show Firefox... »
Getting Help when Using Firefox – Part II
In part I of this two-part series (found here), I discussed the first level of my analysis of our support site. Next, we asked ourselves two questions – Which search terms lead to which articles? Are visitors ultimately satisfied with the articles they choose to view? Let’s take a look at the data: Highlighted in green and red... »
Getting Help when Using Firefox – Part I
A few months ago, David Tenser from our Support team came to the Metrics team with some ideas for analysis concerning user experience with our support.mozilla.com site (SUMO). At the time, we did not have the functionality set up to get the data we wanted, but thanks to some hard work from Jeremy Orem... »
Changing How Users Report a Broken Web Site in Firefox
When I began my analysis of the Broken Site Reporter (seen above) in Firefox (first post can be read here and second here), I imagined a series of 4 or 5 posts with a concluding post on changes I thought would be beneficial to the tool. For now, the end is near for the... »
Firefox Add-ons are Statastic
In case you missed last week’s announcement, the AMO team recently re-launched its stats dashboard. If you want to know how the universe of Firefox add-ons has been growing over time (e.g., via downloads or usage), you can easily adjust the chart to see the visualization you’re interested in. You can also easily export... »
How Many Firefox Users Customize Their Browser?
There’s a relatively simple question we’ve been asking for quite some time… of the total Firefox user base, how many people (or what percentage) use at least one add-on? Thanks to some recent work by Simon Krueger, our metrics intern, we’ve been able to arrive at a rough approximation. Here’s my thought process for the... »
Life After the Launch of Firefox 3.5
It has now been a full month since the launch of Firefox 3.5 – what impact has the new browser had? In just over 30 days, Firefox 3.5 has been downloaded 47.6 million times! This does not include downloads from users who go to (in Firefox) Help->Check for Updates. Looking at the conversion rate from... »
Firefox = 1,000,000,000 Downloads
We passed the 1,000,000,000 download mark for Firefox just in the past couple hours. This number is cumulative across all of time and it includes actual user-initiated downloads (i.e., not automatic updates). You can follow some of the action here and here. Hooray! »