{"id":5138,"date":"2011-08-25T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T18:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:05:34","slug":"do-90-of-people-not-use-ctrlf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2011\/08\/25\/do-90-of-people-not-use-ctrlf\/","title":{"rendered":"Do 90% of People Not Use CTRL+F?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/08\/crazy-90-percent-of-people-dont-know-how-to-use-ctrl-f\/243840\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> in <em>The Atlantic<\/em> floating around the internet, 90% of users don&#8217;t know how to use CTRL+F or Command+F to search a webpage. We were surprised at that percentage. Fortunately, Mozilla has <a href=\"https:\/\/testpilot.mozillalabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> TestPilot studies<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/testpilot.mozillalabs.com\/testcases\/beta\/aggregated-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open data<\/a>, and we can see if Firefox users behave similarly. One relevant 7-day <a href=\"https:\/\/testpilot.mozillalabs.com\/testcases\/betaui2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TestPilot study<\/a> of about 69,000 Windows users focused on Firefox&#8217;s user interface. Along with seeing how users interacted with the navigation bar, their bookmarks, etc., the study looked at how often people used keyboard shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p>What we found is that about <strong>81%<\/strong> of TestPilot users didn&#8217;t use CTRL+F during the course of the study. While 81% is lower than the 90% in the article, TestPilot users are usually more technologically experienced than the general population, since they are largely Firefox Beta users. When we look at TestPilot users who consider themselves beginners, the percentage goes up to 85%. Therefore, our 81% figure does not belie the <em>Atlantic<\/em> piece.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, those who use CTRL+F on average use keyboard shortcuts <strong>twice as much<\/strong> as those who don&#8217;t, even when we ignore those people who don&#8217;t use any keyboard shortcuts at all. This implies that people who use CTRL+F are more comfortable with keyboard shortcuts in general. The only keyboard shortcut the users who use CTRL+F lag behind in is Full Screen, or F11.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/testpilot.mozillalabs.com\/testcases\/beta\/aggregated-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the data<\/a> yourself and <a href=\"https:\/\/testpilot.mozillalabs.com\/testcases\/submit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">let us know<\/a> about any interesting trends you discover!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in The Atlantic floating around the internet, 90% of users don&#8217;t know how to use CTRL+F or Command+F to search a webpage. We were surprised at that percentage. Fortunately, Mozilla has TestPilot studies with open data, &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2011\/08\/25\/do-90-of-people-not-use-ctrlf\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,833],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138"}],"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\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}