{"id":50,"date":"2008-06-05T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=50"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:07:13","slug":"firefox-adoption-grows-at-breakneck-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/06\/05\/firefox-adoption-grows-at-breakneck-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Adoption Grows at Breakneck Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lilly <a href=\"http:\/\/john.jubjubs.net\/2008\/01\/22\/blogging-from-europe-this-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlighted a milestone<\/a> a few months back when we reached 50 million active daily Firefox users.\u00a0 Now, just more than four months later, we\u2019ve surpassed 60 million active daily users.\u00a0 Wow!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s perhaps most shocking is that the <em>percentage<\/em> growth of Firefox usage has continued, all the while our base number has become substantially bigger.\u00a0 In other words, when Firefox had 10 million active daily users, growing at 50% per seven or eight month period meant that we had 5 million new daily users join our community.\u00a0 Now, to maintain that <em>percentage<\/em> pace, we\u2019re seeing nearly 20 million new daily users join our community over a roughly similar time period (e.g., 50% recent growth as we went from 40 million to 60 million active daily users).<\/p>\n<p>This remarkable pace of adoption and community growth stands in stark contrast to some outside expectations from just a few years ago.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/software.silicon.com\/security\/0,39024655,39130294,00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickz.com\/showPage.html?page=3486696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> you\u2019ll notice that folks were writing about a supposed decline in Firefox growth back in 2005.\u00a0 Clearly, those predictions have not played out; far from it, an opposite scenario has become reality.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our contributors, volunteers and community members around the globe\u2026 they certainly deserve the credit for Firefox\u2019s amazing success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lilly highlighted a milestone a few months back when we reached 50 million active daily Firefox users.\u00a0 Now, just more than four months later, we\u2019ve surpassed 60 million active daily users.\u00a0 Wow! What&#8217;s perhaps most shocking is that the &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/06\/05\/firefox-adoption-grows-at-breakneck-pace\/\">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\/50"}],"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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}