{"id":63,"date":"2008-07-23T15:29:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T22:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=63"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:07:11","slug":"where-will-firefox-reach-50-market-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/07\/23\/where-will-firefox-reach-50-market-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Where will Firefox Reach 50% Market Share?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of this week&#8217;s announcement that Firefox recently surpassed <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/07\/21\/firefox-surpasses-50-market-share-in-indonesia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50% market share in Indonesia<\/a>, we thought it would be interesting to look at what other regions are also nearing this amazing milestone.\u00a0 Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/marketshare.hitslink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Net Applications<\/a>, we&#8217;re able to share this data, which is typically only available via a subscription to <a href=\"http:\/\/marketshare.hitslink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their service<\/a>.\u00a0 In the chart below, you&#8217;ll see which countries are next in line for passing the 50% mark and the degree to which each region has been growing in 2008.\u00a0 Please click on the image for a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/images\/7\/73\/Net_app_2008_country_analysis2.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full view<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/images\/7\/73\/Net_app_2008_country_analysis2.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/images\/7\/73\/Net_app_2008_country_analysis2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re aware that this analysis isn&#8217;t exactly rigorous.\u00a0 For example, with the Indonesia discussion, we were able to do a bit of triangulation ensuring that the story was in fact accurate (e.g., comparison with other market share sources, comparison with our own internal growth numbers).\u00a0 That said, we should point out one very compelling fact\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Net Applications shows that Firefox is most likely to soon surpass the 50% mark in Slovenia, Poland, and Finland \u2013 with 48%, 47%, and 45% June market share numbers, respectively.\u00a0 What has Xiti, another provider of market share information, had to say on this subject?\u00a0 According to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xitimonitor.com\/en-us\/browsers-barometer\/firefox-march-2008\/index-1-2-3-127.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest report<\/a>, Firefox market share is highest in <strong>Finland, Poland, and Slovenia<\/strong> \u2013 with 46%, 44% and 44% March market share numbers, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Given how eerily similar these two distinct data sets are , it seems as though the data presented in the chart above should, at the very least, be directionally true&#8230; giving our communities one more reason to <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillaparty.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebrate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of this week&#8217;s announcement that Firefox recently surpassed 50% market share in Indonesia, we thought it would be interesting to look at what other regions are also nearing this amazing milestone.\u00a0 Thanks to Net Applications, we&#8217;re able &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/07\/23\/where-will-firefox-reach-50-market-share\/\">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\/63"}],"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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}