Firefox's European Growth Examined
Posted: 08th Jun, 2005 By: MarkJ
The latest statistics from French web metrics firm XiTi, which monitors over 148,000 websites, found that more than 30% of surfers in Finland had used Firefox to access the sites. Similarly Germany had over 24%, while Hungary stood firm with 22%:
WebSideStory, a Web metrics company, showed Germany with 22 percent Firefox share last month. But WebSideStory's data also reflected the slowdown in adoption rates that has dogged Firefox this year.
One is a simple law of numbers -- it's easier to expand market share by 10 percent per month when starting from a handful of users than it is after your product has enjoyed more than 60 million downloads of its various versions, as Firefox has.
Another factor is that Mozilla's original pitch for Firefox, that it was more secure than Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, has suffered from a string of widely publicised security problems.
Sadly the ZDNet item highlights no statistics from the UK site and we found it hard to locate the related data on XiTi's own portal.
We do know that the bottom of the pile is occupied by Luxembourg (10%), Lithuania (7%) and Monaco (6%).
WebSideStory, a Web metrics company, showed Germany with 22 percent Firefox share last month. But WebSideStory's data also reflected the slowdown in adoption rates that has dogged Firefox this year.
One is a simple law of numbers -- it's easier to expand market share by 10 percent per month when starting from a handful of users than it is after your product has enjoyed more than 60 million downloads of its various versions, as Firefox has.
Another factor is that Mozilla's original pitch for Firefox, that it was more secure than Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, has suffered from a string of widely publicised security problems.
Sadly the ZDNet item highlights no statistics from the UK site and we found it hard to locate the related data on XiTi's own portal.
We do know that the bottom of the pile is occupied by Luxembourg (10%), Lithuania (7%) and Monaco (6%).
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