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| Firefox crosses the 23% frontier in Europe |
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| With a use rate of 23% in Europe, Firefox continues to advance. Europe is also loosing its position as the leading user in the world (23.2%) to Oceania, which shows a rate of 23.4%. |
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- Study undertaken from 11/20/06 and 11/26/06
- Perimeter of 86,402 web sites
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| Trends in Europe |
Firefox user share in Europe has gained almost 4 points since April 2006
Shifting from 19.4% for the week of the 8th to the 14th of April 2006, Firefox user share rose to 23.2% in the week from November 20th to November 26th 2006:
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It reached 40.5% in Slovenia, and in 7 other European countries, rates have gone above 30%: Finland, Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Croatia, Estonia and Hungary
For the whole group of countries within the XiTi perimeter, the Firefox user rate rose from 21.9% to 23.2% between the week of August 28th to September 3rd 2006 (previous study) and the week of the 20th to the 26th of November. Strongest growth was in Estonia: from 24.9% to 31.5%, or +6.5 points in the Firefox user rate. Of the 30 countries mentioned below, only two experienced falls in the rate: Slovakia (-1.5 points), which thus loses its position in third place, and the Czech Republic (-4.6 points) which thus loses it's 5thposition to come 9th.
Slovenia keeps first place amongst European countries with a user rate which has never been so high: 40.5% between the 20th and the 26th of November 2006. Finland is still in second place (+3.9 points), withPoland taking 3rdplace (33.6%), just in front of Germany (33%) in fourth place.
The growth of the user rate in France (20.7% vs 19.6%) follows the average of European countries, whilst in Spain the rate has stayed more or less stable (13.7%).
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| World Trends |
Oceania ahead of Europe in its Firefox user rate
Oceania, experiencing the highest increase (+ 2 points), is now the first continent ahead of Europe in terms of user rate. Firefox is also gaining ground in North America, Africa and Asia (between 1 and 1.9 points), but much more slowly in South America (+0.2 points).
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| Weekly usage patterns |
On weekends, the average share of Firefox use in Europe has reached 25%
Use of Firefox in Europe is up at weekends (+1.1 points between the weekends of 02/03.09.06 and 25/26.11.06, but also during the week. User share of Firefox during the week has moved from 21.2% (for the week from August 28th to September 1st 2006) to 22.6% (week from November 20th to the 24th), in other words, an increase by 1.4 points.
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In the period under study, Luxemburg, Ireland, Slovakia, Austria and Germany experienced the most notable week-end use Only the Ukraine experiences a more intensive use during the week: its week end use is 14% lower at week-ends than during the week.
Firefox continues to expand...How far will the challenger to Internet Explorer go?
Meet up next week on XiTi Monitor to see an up-to-date comparison between Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7, including data on visit behaviour.
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Methodology
The Firefox user rate is based on the total visits from Firefox for the period in question compared with total overall visits.
The figures for a continent attempt to be representative of the audited countries within the continent in question. The indicator is the average of the indicators of the individual countries. The behaviour observed in a country generating only a few visits thus influences, in a fair manner, the behaviour arrived at for the continent as a whole.
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