{"id":206,"date":"2008-11-06T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T19:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=206"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:07:10","slug":"firefox-usage-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/11\/06\/firefox-usage-and-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Usage and Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s surprising how the simplest things can sometimes be the most revealing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve previously talked quite a bit about the international landscape that describes Firefox adoption and usage.\u00a0  See <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/06\/02\/go-colombia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/05\/19\/what-wwwmozillacom-tells-us-about-our-global-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/schrep\/2008\/02\/24\/where-in-the-world-do-you-use-firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this old post<\/a> from Schrep.\u00a0  Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/autological.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jane<\/a> asked me a relatively simple question related to Firefox usage in Europe.\u00a0  Within a minute, I found the answer to her question creating the pie chart below.\u00a0  In the past, I&#8217;ve generally focused on usage patterns by country, but I found this simple view of the data much more eye opening than previous analyses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2008\/11\/where_users_are_based.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-208\" title=\"where_users_are_based\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2008\/11\/where_users_are_based.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is most surprising?<\/p>\n<p>We previously highlighted the <a href=\"http:\/\/services.alphaworks.ibm.com\/manyeyes\/view\/S_X47QsOtha6k~EfzS67Q2~\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interactive Treemap below<\/a> showcasing internet population and penetration by both region and country.\u00a0  Asia appears to represent about 40% of the global internet population, but it isn&#8217;t as nearly well represented in the Firefox chart above (12%).\u00a0  Clearly, there&#8217;s much more work for us to do here in the future (a good thing!).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/services.alphaworks.ibm.com\/manyeyes\/view\/S_X47QsOtha6k~EfzS67Q2~\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-209\" title=\"ibm_visualization\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2008\/11\/ibm_visualization.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s surprising how the simplest things can sometimes be the most revealing&#8230; We&#8217;ve previously talked quite a bit about the international landscape that describes Firefox adoption and usage.\u00a0 See here and here, along with this old post from Schrep.\u00a0 Today, &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/11\/06\/firefox-usage-and-europe\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}