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Comparing Different Types of Broken Web Sites
In Part I of our Broken Web Site Reporter analysis here, we looked at some very general data patterns concerning usage of our Report Broken Web Site tool in the Firefox Help menu. Here I will attempt to dive a little further into users’ responses, examining the Problem Type category from the data. When... »
Community Member Spotlight
How would you devise a marketing plan for Mozilla? This was the business problem that Jakob Marovt and a group of other students recently tried tackling. Jakob is a student in Slovenia at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science. His Mozilla project came about earlier this year while studying abroad at... »
Regional Patterns in Firefox Adoption
Last week, we looked at which regions have shown the fastest and slowest adoption rates of Firefox 3.5. Asa had a great idea to expand on this analysis – why not visualize it through a global map to more easily see if there are any overarching patterns across particular regions? So, we took our Firefox... »
Live Tracking of Firefox 3.5 Adoption (part II)
Earlier today, we highlighted some real-time tracking by whos.amung.us. Next up, we have another visualization engine for today’s Firefox 3.5 launch – downloadstats.mozilla.com. This was a somewhat stealth (i.e., surprise) project brought about by our very own Daniel Einspanjer (in collaboration with the folks at SQLstream). (Thanks to the Mozilla web dev team as well.) Similar... »
Live Tracking of Firefox 3.5 Adoption (part I)
With the Firefox 3 launch last summer, we saw some great examples of community driven stats and real-time tracking of its adoption. With today’s launch of Firefox 3.5, we’re stoked to see another wave of innovative tracking tools and visualizations. One such tool comes to us from the folks at whos.amung.us, a widget application... »
Places Stats – Analysis in the Open
I was excited to see Andy Edmonds’ post yesterday about Places Stats. It’s not every day that we see someone in the Mozilla community talking about R, a popular statistical package. Places is described as “a system for storing bookmarks, history, and other user information about the Web, intended to improve developer access to this... »
Introducing our twin blog – Mozilla’s Blog of Data
To complement what we publish here at Blog of Metrics, the Mozilla metrics/analytics team has created the Blog of Data. Its mission is to provide transparency to technical side of our function. Below is a description from the “About” page: The Blog of Metrics is the place to go to hear from the Mozilla metrics... »
Presenting at eMetrics Conference
I had the fortunate opportunity to speak at and attend my very first eMetrics Summit this week. I’ve shared my slide deck below, but before getting to that, I wanted to share some highlights from a few sessions I attended: Chris Daniels from Stubhub walked through their use of Foresee. Through an innovative implementation and... »
Latvians Love Firefox
The first day of each month often brings great news. A month ago, we saw that the latest browser market share data showed Firefox surpassing the 50% milestone in Slovakia and the Philippines. Today, we can say the same about Firefox usage in Latvia! This particular browser share announcement is especially unique… For the first time,... »
People in the Philippines Love Firefox
After previously reaching this milestone in Indonesia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and (most recently) Bosnia Herzegovina, Firefox has now surpassed 50% market share in two more regions – Slovakia and the Philippines. These numbers come from Net Applications’ March 2009 report (note: regional breakdowns require a subscription). As we noted a few months back, the important metric... »