Posted by Saptarshi Guha
We were asked to determine if EARLY_GLUESTARTUP_READ_OPS affected the startup time for Firefox. It is expected that when the former is 0, the startup time is shorter. The bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757215 describes this in more detail (and a place for the … Continue reading
Posted by Saptarshi Guha
1 Introduction The Socorro crash report accumulation pipeline does not process all the crash reports. Though every report is stored on disk, only 10% are processed and saved in HBase as JSON objects. Each crash report has a crash signature (Crash … Continue reading
Posted by Saptarshi Guha
As the website ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink ) describes, MemShrink is a project to reduce Firefox memory consumption. Summary (taken from the webpage) is Speed. Firefox will be faster due to less cache pressure, less paging, and fewer/smaller GC and CC pauses. … Continue reading
Posted by Rebecca Weiss
Market research has shown that the Mozilla mission is a powerful attractor for Firefox users. Furthermore, additional research has shown that recommendation is a strong method to promote the adoption of Firefox. These observations lead to the following question: how … Continue reading
Posted by Saptarshi Guha
As with many software companies, we are keenly interested in gauging active installations and understanding how people use our products. However, as a non-profit organization with a strong interest in promoting privacy, we also recognize there’s a fine line between … Continue reading
Posted by Saptarshi Guha
After a marathon Firefox 4 download ( 15.85 MM, see http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2011/03/25/the-first-48-hours-of-mozilla-firefox-4/ ) we prepared a location intensity graph. Figure 1 displays the cities by frequency of download (independent of how many downloads though the two are strongly related). Blue is … Continue reading
Posted by Hamilton Ulmer
In our last post, we found that the number of installed extensions was a good discriminant of heavier users. In this short follow-up, we’ll delve into the survey data associated with the Beta Interface study. Here is a snapshot of … Continue reading
Posted by Blake Cutler
We’re sharing statistics, data visualizations, and other insights regarding how people use Firefox and the Internet. Follow us @mozmetrics.
Posted by Ken Kovash
A few years ago, Mozilla made a change in web analytics tools to help us better understand traffic at Mozilla’s websites and handle our volume as one of the world’s largest web properties. At the time, Mitchell led a discussion … Continue reading
Posted by Blake Cutler
While it’s seemingly been quiet on the website optimization front, we’ve been very busy behind the scenes. Over the last few months, Laura Mesa has coordinated the design of 5 A/B tests that we’re now in the process of implementing … Continue reading
