{"id":2193,"date":"2010-01-14T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T21:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:05:38","slug":"internet-usage-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2010\/01\/14\/internet-usage-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Usage in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010_Haiti_earthquake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuesday\u2019s earthquake in Haiti<\/a> devastated hundreds of thousands of lives and the aftershocks are felt physically and emotionally throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Mozilla community includes thousands of people in Haiti, and in our metrics, we can see the hole this disaster has left in our community.\u00a0 The chart below shows Firefox usage in Haiti this week (it\u2019s based on a once daily \u201cping\u201d that we see from active users) and it\u2019s broken down by hour (local time in Haiti).\u00a0 This picture is not pretty and it suggests that much of the communications infrastructure within Haiti has been adversely affected.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2194\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"haiti_firefox\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/haiti_firefox.png\" alt=\"haiti_firefox\" width=\"545\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/haiti_firefox.png 545w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/haiti_firefox-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everyone in Haiti could use our thoughts and help, and we&#8217;d like to put out a personal plea to the Mozilla family to consider these members of our community and <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.doctorswithoutborders.org\/SSLPage.aspx?pid=197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donate<\/a> if you can.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Daniel Einspanjer for contributing to this post.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday\u2019s earthquake in Haiti devastated hundreds of thousands of lives and the aftershocks are felt physically and emotionally throughout the world. The Mozilla community includes thousands of people in Haiti, and in our metrics, we can see the hole this &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2010\/01\/14\/internet-usage-in-haiti\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193"}],"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=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}