Detailed Download Data - Update May 9, 2007

Posted by chris on Wed, 05/09/2007 - 16:34Stats

The detailed download data has been updated up to May 8, 2007. We've also corrected some minor errors that prevented access to the By Locale file.

Background: We've been publishing a Firefox Download Feed for almost 2 years now, and many folks have mashed it up into some really cool ticking counters, visualizations, etc. We now have a bunch more data that we're trying to get out to the community. To start, we're going to augment the download feed. We haven't yet figured out how to do this, but to get started I'm posting a number of files with the most current and detailed data we have on Firefox downloads.

All of this data has been collected and is being shared under the terms of the Mozilla Privacy Policy and we're licensing this data for use by anyone under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. There is no personally-identifiable information contained in this data set.

Again, we're looking into how to best augment the existing download feed or add others. And we're super open to ideas on how to analyze, interpret and display this data in useful ways.

Please do take a look, poke around, mock up some ideas and post your thoughts.

Summary Tables: We've posted the latest version of these files to: http://people.mozilla.com/~cbeard/downloads/.

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Something else to consider...
Submitted by 3518742690 on Fri, 05/11/2007 - 22:48.

I've suggested this before, but I think this would be another good time.


We should make a Firefox "General Data" feed, including all of the above (in numeric form, of course) and stuff like current latest stable version number, latest unstable version number, downloads, hours and minutes and stuff until next release. Smaller banners or buttons would only include 1 or 2 of the above.



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A single feed
Submitted by Percy Cabello on Fri, 05/11/2007 - 21:40.

Could a unified feed be served as well? Something like:

Date,OS,Browser,Locale, #Downloads

It would allow better analysis (and more fun).

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Automated Feeds
Submitted by on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 16:25.

Yes, this is absolutely what we're heading toward. It was taking far too long to get the technical details worked out, so we started publishing the data manually for now. The bigger question is how to best structure the data feeds, I imagine there could be several, particularly as we start putting out market share data, etc. as well.

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Some comments
Submitted by ivanii on Wed, 05/09/2007 - 19:48.

It might or might not help, but you can compare it with Google trends"

Anyway, I can get one conclusion from data: Firefox 2.0 is definitely more sustainable than 1.5. To conclude this, I compared the number of downloads in first three days after launch with number of downloads 100 days later, and Firefox 2 stands better (3,8 times drop compared to 4,74 times drop for first day, 2,62 vs 3,02 for second and 2,09 vs 2,26 for third day). If you take into account that absolute number of downloads at 2.0 launch was notably higher than at 1.5 launch, this is clearly better result.

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