November 21, 2004

trying again on downloads

It seems my previous post was confusing. The point I was trying to illustrate was that we have varying percentages of downloads coming from IE users that seem heavily skewed depending on whether the download is of, for example, the el-GR localization -- where 86% of the people downloading the Greek localization did so using IE - or the en-GB where only 45% of the downloads were performed using IE.

Another way to put this would be to say that, based on my rough analysis, people seeking the en-GB localization are mostly downloading with non-IE browsers. I don't have a breakdown of that but it's probably mostly older Gecko-based browsers. People seeking the Greek localization are mostly downloading from an IE client and so I'm guessing that before 1.0 Gecko-based clients didn't have a lot of penetration into the Greek market.

Is this more clear? The reason I even bring this up is because I hear a lot of people saying things like "yeah, you may have millions of 1.0 downloads, but those are all probably just people upgrading from the Preview Release." So this was a response of sorts trying to point out that people using IE to download Firefox 1.0 probably aren't PR users (who would presumably be using the PR to download 1.0 rather than IE.)

My first pass through the data suggested that more than 53% of the Windows Firefox 1.0 dowloads were being performed by IE users. Out of curiosity, I looked a bit closer and saw that there was a fairly wide spread, with IE users dominating a few of the localized builds, and non-IE downloaders having a strong majority in other localizations.

Hope this clears things up a bit more. Let me know if it doesn't.

Posted by asa at 9:23 AM

 

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