the graphs (part 1)

One of the most frequent requests I get from people here and over at SpreadFirefox.com are for more detailed download information. The cumulative download graph is the most often requested and fairly easy to put together.

This graph shows the total number of downloads since the day of the release. As you can see, the line is pretty darned straight. That's highly encouraging to me as we've never before seen this kind of linear growth over this length of time with any prior Mozilla product releases.

In this graph, it's not real easy to see, but things had started to dip a bit right before the New York Times ad ran on December 14. The slope turned upward a bit for the following two weeks. Then it fell back a bit over the Christmas and newyear holidays but came back with a nice kick as people returned to school and work in 2005. That uptick is visible starting around January 4th.

The line runs up through early this morning when we hit 20,000,000 downloads. That's shy of 11 weeks since the 1.0 release.

I've got a daily totals graph that I'll be posting next so stay tuned.