cool, http://maddox.xmission.comis at #2, I love to read his stuff, he gets a LOT of traffic.

at least one dmb fan site knows whats up as far as web browser technology goes..

Are you sure those Adult site are linking to mozilla, aren't you just being spammed with false referer. I know my webpage stats are being spammed with false referer.

haha perfect, and the asian site has even a firefox button! :D

You're indirectly helping these referer-spammers improve their google pagerank! Even my weblog that lacks content has spots 6-20 occupied by these adult websites.. just because it has a pagerank of 5, its one of their targets.

Cool, my website is the top referrer for Firefox :)

In response to some of the other comments: It's hard to know if there is referrer spamming going on, but the adult sites shown do actually have Firefox buttons, and adult sites are of course very popular.

Just to follow up on Micahell's comment, yes, these are all legit referrers. They have buttons or links on their primary pages that point to us. This is not referrer spam at all, this is Firefox and Mozilla advocacy and some of it happens to come from porn sites who like us :-)

--Asa

I'm curious if this represents actual clickthroughs, or if you've excluded remote in-lining. On nancies.org, we're using the Firefox logo by calling it from your server (as per Mozilla instructions, presumably helping y'all track where your promotional images are at and how much exposure they're getting), and I wonder if we're listed at #9 because of a lot of people loading the front page of our site, or because a lot of people are clicking through. The former is no news to me, but the latter would be fantastic.

Any idea?

bug 254478 was recently filed and fixed. Before this there were some cassino referrers in there too. I'm pretty sure the asian thumbs gallery is legit, the cassino ones looked to be very bogus.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254478

(so far, mozilla.org hasn't dropped from Google's SERPs)

Here's a fun google query:

http://www.google.com/search?q=allintitle%3A%22usage+statistics+for%22

lxr.kde.org got especially hard-hit:

http://stats.nadmm.com/kdelxr/

Err, make that mozilla.org's web statistics

Some of the porn sites abuse the name Firefox.

The links to the galleries of collegesucks.com link to www.xxxtoolbar.com, which tries to install a trojan horse via xpi. Wasn't there a change in Geckos behavior with xpi-files in rv1.7 because of sites like this?
This is not advocacy, this is a severe trademark abuse.

>severe trademark abuse
would you care to elaborate? even if they install bad things, i don't understand how anyone could think of trademark abuse in this case...

They recommand firefox, but if you have it, they try to install a trojan horse via xpi - which means, that an avarage user would associate firefox with malware or spyware.
For me, this abuses the trademark Firefox, because users could - and many of them would - associate it with malware and spyware.

Many people think, Firefox is secure by default or secure because writing malware for it isn't efficient, because of it's low market share - but sites like xxxtoolbar.com show, that's simply not true.

wjs, I don't see the links to xxxtoolbar , "Galleries" takes me to a listing and the first few sites on that listing take me to porn and not xxx toolbar, and when I visit xxxtoolbar manually, I don't get any xpi dialog at all. I get prompted to download some executable, but it's not an XPInstall dialog. Can you provide links?

--Asa

Sorry, you're right, the link which leads to xxxtoolbar is an ad, an image which looks like a text, just the second link after the link to Mozilla.Org an the last link in the site, when you list them by the "linky" option "download all links":

http://cgi.sexswap.com/adswap.dll?showad?accountnumber=8931&PageNumber=0

When you click this advertising link, it redirects to www.xxxtoolbar.com
where pop-ups are opened (with pop-ups disabled you'll get a blank page, else it opens many pop-ups and tries to install a "free video player"

The text in this image is
>
Gallery1 Gallery2 Gallery3 Gallery4

Because many porn sites provide first a list of links to other sites, advertising an so on, and their own content at the bottom of the page, it is not unlikely, that many users will click on this link, expecting some pictures.

But click at that an you will be redirected to www.xxxtoolbar.com

When you go to the home page of xxxtoolbar.com with Gecko 1.6 or lower, it starts an unrequested installation process of the xpi-File

http://www.xxxtoolbar.com/ist/softwares/v4.0/ist_netscape.xpi

maybe a trojan horse or just a dialer.

when you use a non-Windows-system, (browser spoofing doesn't work) first there is a javascript pop-up which tells you "sorry, your browser is not win32 compatible.

xxxtoolbar.com was used as an example
http://www.heise.de/bilder/48349/0/0
http://www.heise.de/bilder/48349/1/0
in an editorial at heise.de "Mozilla - das Ende der Idylle" -
http://www.heise.de/security/artikel/48349
which described the xpi-concept as a security hole in Mozilla 1.6 - one day after the release of Mozilla 1.7 which fixed most security problems in the xpi file installation process.
http://www.heise.de/security/dienste/browsercheck/demos/nc/xpi-demo.shtml

Ask Ben Bucksch or for more details about that.
http://www.heise.de/security/news/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=5886226&forum_id=58484

my user-agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3