According to an article in The Atlantic floating around the internet, 90% of users don’t know how to use CTRL+F or Command+F to search a webpage. We were surprised at that percentage. Fortunately, Mozilla has TestPilot studies with open data, … Continue reading
[Cross-posted at Mozilla User Research] The new tab page in Firefox is intentionally left blank, while some browsers present rich information on a newly opened tab. The decision to leave new tab pages in Firefox blank was driven, in part, … Continue reading
The Mozilla Metrics team is expanding to meet the growing data related opportunities and challenges faced by Mozilla and the web as a whole. In addition to open positions for a visualization expert and a metrics software engineer, we are … Continue reading
[Note: cross-posted on Mozilla Labs] Back in November, Mozilla Labs and the Metrics Team together launched the first Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition. While we set out to discover creative visual answers to the open question, “How do people use … Continue reading
In our last post we delved into the rudimentary dynamics of the “browser session,” defined as a continuous period of user activity in the browser, where successive events are separated by no more than 30 minutes. In this short post … Continue reading
We recently provided some simple insights we’ve gleaned from how people use private browsing. In this post we’ll take a higher view, and examine behavior regarding when people generally use their browser. The tl;dr version: users who have more “sessions” … Continue reading
[Note: cross-posted on Mozilla Labs] Hello Data Hackers! We just wanted to remind everyone that the submission deadline for the first Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition is just 10 days away! Submit your entries by December 17th for a chance … Continue reading
[Note: cross-posted on Mozilla Labs] Two weeks ago the Mozilla Metrics Team, together with Mozilla Labs and the growing Mozilla Research Initiative, announced our first Open Data Visualization Competition. Today, we are excited to release the data sets for this … Continue reading
One of the most significant changes to the user interface for Firefox 4 was the rolling of the old menu items into one button, something we have called on this blog the “combined menu.” We’ve addressed the impact of this … Continue reading
The Mozilla Metrics Team, together with Mozilla Labs and the growing Mozilla Research Initiative, is excited to announce our first Open Data Visualization Competition. Using data from Mozilla’s own open data program, Test Pilot, we’d like to explore creative visual … Continue reading
