{"id":498,"date":"2009-04-01T11:35:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=498"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:07:06","slug":"people-in-the-philippines-love-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2009\/04\/01\/people-in-the-philippines-love-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"People in the Philippines Love Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After previously reaching this milestone in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/07\/21\/firefox-surpasses-50-market-share-in-indonesia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indonesia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/12\/01\/firefox-surpassing-50-market-share-in-more-regions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slovenia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/12\/01\/firefox-surpassing-50-market-share-in-more-regions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Macedonia<\/a>, and (most recently) Bosnia Herzegovina, Firefox has now surpassed 50% market share in two more regions \u2013 Slovakia and the Philippines.\u00a0 These numbers come from Net Applications&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/marketshare.hitslink.com\/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2009 report<\/a> (note: regional breakdowns require a subscription).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/04\/march09_update.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-499 aligncenter\" title=\"march09_update\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/04\/march09_update.png\" alt=\"march09_update\" width=\"553\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/04\/march09_update.png 553w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/04\/march09_update-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we noted a few months back, the important metric to follow is the *trending* of the numbers, versus the absolute numbers\/levels themselves (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2009\/03\/19\/what-is-firefoxs-market-share\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see here<\/a> for a full description of market share methodologies).\u00a0 With that approach, Firefox has seen continued rapid growth across many regions \u2013 since November, we&#8217;ve picked up more than 3% in Hungary, the Philippines, Poland, and Bosnia Herzegovina, along with an astounding 5% in Indonesia and Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p>A big round of applause is due to the entire Mozilla community.<\/p>\n<p>(Please note: we haven&#8217;t yet officially announced Poland as having crossed the 50% mark, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.en.ranking.pl\/index.php?page=Ranks:RanksPage&amp;stat=22|OW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gemius&#8217; market share data <\/a>shows Firefox at about 45%.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After previously reaching this milestone in Indonesia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and (most recently) Bosnia Herzegovina, Firefox has now surpassed 50% market share in two more regions \u2013 Slovakia and the Philippines.\u00a0 These numbers come from Net Applications&#8217; March 2009 report (note: &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2009\/04\/01\/people-in-the-philippines-love-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":[101,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}