XitiMonitor.com has recently published an English version of their latest browser market share study, which credits Firefox with 28% of the European market
Firefox market share in Europe, January 2008, according to XitiMonitor
One must try to see further than just the average number of 28%. While being quite high (certainly higher than what I hoped back when Firefox 1.0 was launched 3 years ago!), it hides the complexity of Europe, which gives very different numbers from The Netherlands (14.7%) to Finland (45.4%). Rupert Goodwins, over at his ZDNet.uk blog, writes Europe: endless speculation about Firefox . I am myself speculating quite a bit on this (after all, I want Firefox and Thunderbird to succeed in all countries in Europe), and I have a few thoughts, as I spend quite a bit of my time traveling from country to country, visiting communities working on Firefox in Europe. In the future, I hope to be able to document how Mozilla-related local communities work, so that other people interested in this can think about all the reasons for this diversity. Stay tuned!
Anyway, the Xiti report has generated quite a bit of press coverage! See below:
- Poland:Interia.pl
- UK: PCPro and PCAdvisor
- Germany: TecChannel
- Italy: VNUnet
- Austria: ComputerWelt
- US: Wired
- France: Cnet.fr and VNUnet
1 réactions
1 De Christian - 02/02/2008, 15:15
I don't know what data the XitiMonitor is based on, but it is worth mentioning that their reported Firefox usage share for Denmark is about twice as what is reported by Adtech and FDIM (association of most major Danish websites):
http://www.adtech.info/en/pr-07-18....
http://fdim.dk/?pageid=89&list=...
The Adtech numbers may be scewed by Firefox's better ad blocking support. Both FDIM and Adtech numbers are based on established media and not personal websites, privately hosted weblogs etc.
Both Adtech and Firefox counts page impressions, while XitiMonitor uses user visits, so the numbers are not strictly comparable. But that hardly explains the huge difference between the numbers.