Ken Kovash, over at the Metrics blog posts some significant information:
we’ve surpassed 60 million active daily users.
But Ken also links to a post by John Lilly dated January 2008, which mentioned that we had passed the 50 million active daily users[1].
If I read this right, we have gained 10 million active daily users in just 6 months, moving from 50 million to 60 million. Firefox has gained 20% active daily users in just 6 months, which is nothing short of amazing
Now the Web is growing, but Firefox is growing faster that the Web itself, meaning that we're gaining market share in percentage. And wait 'til we ship Firefox 3: I'm betting that Firefox adoption will accelerate!
Notes
[1] For more details on market share, active daily users and active monthly users, please refer to John' post, Mozilla & Firefox market share.
3 réactions
1 De Cedric Maloux - 07/06/2008, 13:06
Excellent !
2 De Fabien Chabreuil - 08/06/2008, 07:19
How do you know that a user is active? Are information sent and registered every time Firefox is used?
3 De Tristan - 08/06/2008, 10:14
@Fabien :
You'll find the answer in John Lilly's blog post, Mozilla & Firefox Market share. Excerpt:
> Firefox uses a system that we call AUS (Application Update Service) to keep itself up-to-date with security patches & such. Around once a day, Firefox will ping Mozilla servers to see if there’s a new update available, and if there is, it’ll present an option to users to download and install it. (AUS really deserves a longer posting — the ping is non-identifiable, respecting user privacy, and is one of the major reasons that the Firefox user base, as large as it is, is nearly all using the most recent, patched version at any given time.)
More details on http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/legal/... .