600 million Mozilla add-ons downloaded to date
Published: January 31st, 2008
Mozilla Blog of Metrics announced some interesting numbers about Firefox add-ons server by Mozilla Add-ons:
- 4000 extensions available.
- Between 800,000 and 1 million downloads per day.
- About 4.5 million page views per day.
- About 100 million checks for updates occur every day, which represents the minimum number of add-ons currently in use. 96% of these come from Firefox installations.
- More than 600 million add-ons (themes + extensions) have been downloaded (obviously not counting updates).
Based on update ping logs, about 96% of Firefox users are on the 2.0 branch, 2% on 1.x and 1% have already made the jump to the latest and greatest and for-testers-only-yet 3.0 branch. The number could not reflect the complete picture however, as a user that has installed add-ons is probably more likely to have his software up to date but still a pretty high number for any software.
We’ll see how the new Firefox 3 Add-ons Manager boosts add-ons usage and customization.
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January 31st, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I think that should be ‘to date’ rather than ‘to day’… 600 million is a lot of downloads for one day!
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January 31st, 2008 at 4:38 pm
David, what if it really was 600 million a day? Yeah, wow! But it isn’t and you’re right. Corrected, thanks!
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