{"id":48,"date":"2008-06-02T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T17:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=48"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:07:13","slug":"firefox-market-share-update-and-a-perspective-on-firefox-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/06\/02\/firefox-market-share-update-and-a-perspective-on-firefox-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Market Share Update and a Perspective on Firefox 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/05\/06\/firefox-worldwide-market-share-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hiccup<\/a>, yesterday Net Applications released its latest <a href=\"http:\/\/marketshare.hitslink.com\/report.aspx?qprid=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">market share report<\/a> for May 2008.\u00a0 Firefox showed a nice improvement in the April to May timeframe, going from 17.76% to 18.41% worldwide market share.\u00a0 Net Applications provides their own interpretation <a href=\"http:\/\/marketshare.hitslink.com\/report.aspx?sample=15&amp;qprid=22&amp;qpdt=1&amp;qpct=5&amp;qptimeframe=M&amp;qpsp=101&amp;qpnp=12&amp;qprid2=3&amp;qpcustom2=Firefox+3.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting part of the story is that while Firefox 3 continues to show rapid adoption, most of our growth was driven by <a href=\"http:\/\/marketshare.hitslink.com\/report.aspx?qprid=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increased usage<\/a> of Firefox 2.\u00a0 In other words, Firefox 3 adoption is not coming at the expense of Firefox 2 usage (it&#8217;s not simply the case of existing users updating from Fx2 to Fx3).\u00a0 Clearly, the overall health of the Firefox brand is amazingly strong as we head towards the official release of Firefox 3.<\/p>\n<p>The first chart below details the change in Firefox market share numbers over the last five weeks, and the second chart highlights the latter two columns:\u00a0 Firefox 3 adoption relative to the share of Opera (I didn&#8217;t mean to put Opera on the spot here\u2026 it just seemed like a relatively good benchmark).\u00a0 Source for all data: Net Applications.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/images\/1\/10\/May2008_NetApp_weekly.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/images\/8\/8e\/May2008_NetApp_Fx3Opera.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last month&#8217;s hiccup, yesterday Net Applications released its latest market share report for May 2008.\u00a0 Firefox showed a nice improvement in the April to May timeframe, going from 17.76% to 18.41% worldwide market share.\u00a0 Net Applications provides their own &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/06\/02\/firefox-market-share-update-and-a-perspective-on-firefox-3\/\">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":[101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}