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Download per capita estimates for each country

Posted Jul 7, 2008 9:00 UTC (Mon) by amosbatto (guest, #52567)
Parent article: Over 8,000,000 Mozilla Firefox 3 Downloads in 24 Hours (MozillaZine)

I updated the estimates of downloads per population for Firefox 3.0 for 2008-07-07:01am. The
Lithuanians still have far more downloads per capita than anyone else in the world, but the
percentage of the population is12.8%, which is only a rise of 1.5% since the June 17 launch
day.  Most other countries have doubled or tripled their percentages since launch day. 

See: http://66.150.224.204/amos/percentDownloadingFF3.html

See estimates after launch day: http://dd.dzubak.sk/dd_down-pop

Maybe the traffic to Lithuania was really going to Russia as some have suggested, but then the
numbers should have continued to rise after the launch date. The fact that there was a sudden
surge only on launch day, suggests a deliberate attempt to game the system.

Nonetheless, the data is very interesting, and a little depressing since I am currently in
Bolivia where only 1 in 1000 have downloaded Firefox 3.0.
Cheers, Amos Batto


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