In a previous post, I shared early test results of adding a small text link for our bitcoin donation page to the footer of our primary donation form. Results at that time showed a slight but statistically significant decrease in … Continue reading
We have 36 precious hours left in the campaign, and that also means we’ve come to the end of testing and optimization on our donation flow. Everything we have learned in our testing over the past 1.5 months has brought … Continue reading
2014 has been a record setting year for making and learning in the Webmaker community. People from all over the world learned new skills by creating on the web and sharing with friends and family. We didn’t have space to … Continue reading
Andrea’s recent post talked about the importance of this fundraising campaign being global, and I wanted to follow up on this with some notes about how our A/B testing strategy, and the volunteers who work on our localization have overlapped. … Continue reading
Mozilla is a global organization, we will always work to improve the donor experience for everyone, no matter where they might be on the planet. Last year 58.5% of total donations came from inside the United States, and 41.5% of … Continue reading
As the year comes to a close, we’re feeling extremely grateful for the many individuals who have been able to learn, teach others and contribute to our tools, products and curriculum in 2014. Whether it was on their own, in … Continue reading
The Call On Sunday evening, I got the call from Pagerduty: The always-amazing Andrea Wood had noticed a discrepancy in bounce rates and load times for our fundraising page on Firefox browsers. The Investigation I immediately hopped onto some of our … Continue reading
It’s been a tremendous year for open science, and we’re excited to continue working towards more open science in the new year. In the meantime, happy holidays from all of us at the Science Lab. We’ll see you in 2015! … Continue reading
When we first launched the Science Lab 18 months ago, we had a napkin sketch of a framing, an educational program to partner with, and a shared belief that “open science” was not yet a reality. That initial model pulled … Continue reading
We set a goal for ourselves of $1.75 million to raise during our year-end fundraising campaign this year. I’m excited to report that today—thanks to 213,605 donors representing more than 174 countries who gave an average gift of $8 to … Continue reading
