New Reports Furnish Metrics to Our Localization Community

From the hard work by Mozilla’s Metrics team comes localizer metric reports that will show growth and usage data for each of our Firefox locales.  The l10n-drivers team has been asking in meetings if we could show the impact that our volunteers are having with reports like the one sampled below.  If you click the following link you will download a sample report.

Initially, I sketched out what I thought would be valuable information for the report, ran it by the l10n-drivers, and sent it to the metrics team to start implementation.  In my opinion, an effective report provides both download and active daily user information to our localizers about their locales AND the geos in which their locales are being used.  Let’s review the contents for those who might need a guide.  Feel free to reference the attached screen shots as you read.

Locale-specific information

We are presenting both the download and active daily user (ADU) information (usages statistics and pie charts) for versions of Firefox.  ADUs are based on the blocklist pings we track.  (More on blocklist can be found at Morgamic’s post.)

Geographic-specific information

Each report will show both the download and blocklist for the top five locales inside a country where the localizer’s translated Firefox is most prominently used.  In many cases, this is easy to map.  Locale code “fr” is probably most prominently used in France.  “de” in Germany.  “es-ES” in Spain.  In some cases, we’ll have to make guesses, like for our Kurdish localizers.   Finally, we will provide a list of the top ten countries (by average blocklist pings) where the localizer’s Firefox is being used.

For the first time, our community of l10n volunteers will have a more comprehensive set of data points to help measure the progress and spread of their work.  By providing both locale and geographic information, these reports illustrate the impact that each localization team is providing.

Below are two images of a sample two page report.

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