{"id":463,"date":"2009-03-16T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T00:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=463"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:07:07","slug":"the-global-growth-of-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2009\/03\/16\/the-global-growth-of-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Global Growth of Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post may only be exciting for those who enjoy spending their free time coding in a statistical program (e.g., R, Stata), but I wanted to share an output courtesy of Blake Cutler.\u00a0 Taking per country browser market share data from <a href=\"http:\/\/marketshare.hitslink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Net Applications<\/a> since the beginning of 2008, Blake simply gave a &#8220;sum&#8221; command (i.e., summarize) for both January 2008 and February 2009:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/images\/2\/29\/Market_share_sum_a.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-466\" title=\"market_share_sum1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/03\/market_share_sum1.png\" alt=\"market_share_sum1\" width=\"507\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/03\/market_share_sum1.png 507w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/03\/market_share_sum1-300x126.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll notice a few interesting trends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of countries in the sample has increased over time.<\/li>\n<li>The mean (or average) Firefox market share, on a per country basis, showed a very healthy increase in the past year.\u00a0 The means of 20.1% and 27.7% are greater than what you see <a href=\"http:\/\/marketshare.hitslink.com\/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> because they are not weighted in any way (e.g., by region or internet population size).<\/li>\n<li>Correspondingly, the standard deviation has increased as well.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;max&#8221; increased from 47.2% to 63.1% (I believe that&#8217;s Indonesia).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post may only be exciting for those who enjoy spending their free time coding in a statistical program (e.g., R, Stata), but I wanted to share an output courtesy of Blake Cutler.\u00a0 Taking per country browser market share data &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2009\/03\/16\/the-global-growth-of-firefox\/\">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\/463"}],"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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}