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40% Firefox Growth in 2009
2009 wraps up another year of terrific Firefox growth! Roughly keeping pace with previous years, Firefox grew 40% worldwide. Two regions in particular continued adopting Firefox at a breakneck pace —...
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The Long Tail of Firefox Use
Now that we’ve reviewed our growth in 2009, you may wonder which countries added the most Firefox users. Are a handful of countries with high Internet populations responsible for Firefox’s growth? Or...
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How Users Open New Empty Tabs
Summary: In a survey of 966 visitors to the Update page, 47.8% open new empty tabs from the new tab button, 30.4% from the file menu, and 21.8% from a keyboard shortcut. In addition to running A/B and...
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Better Crash Trending – A Test Pilot Proposal
Summary: (Total Crashes)/(Active Daily Users) is a low resolution metric for crash trending. We can improve Firefox’s stability for more users if we understand the distribution of crashes. Over the...
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Website Optimization Update
While it’s seemingly been quiet on the website optimization front, we’ve been very busy behind the scenes. Over the last few months, Laura Mesa has coordinated the design of 5 A/B tests that we’re now...
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Addition by Subtraction
With our first multivariate test, we set out to answer a simple question: which design elements drive downloads on the IE landing page? We didn’t know which elements were most effective, but expected...
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Firefox & Page Load Speed – Part I
With our last experiment, we found that a simplified download page drove conversions up 2.3%. We hypothesized that much of this improvement was due to improved page load speed. Today, we’ll test this...
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Firefox & Page Load Speed – Part II
Let’s start with the punchline: By making a few minor tweaks to our top landing pages, we can drive an additional 60,000,000 Firefox downloads per year. 60 million is a big number, so let’s add a...
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Visualizing Firefox 4 Beta Usage
Last July, we presented initial analysis from our first comprehensive user interface (UI) study through an interactive, web-based heatmap. Many findings aligned with our expectations, but there were a...
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