[Sigia-l] Is email dead, too?

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Ziya Oz
> Sent: 20 July 2007 19:15
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Is email dead, too?
> 
> Jonathan Baker-Bates:
> 
> > PS: I'm afraid you're mistaken if you think FF anywhere near 30% in 
> > Europe (at least on any major sites). More like 5-12% for non-geek 
> > sites, with other Gecko agents totalling perhaps 3% on top of that.
> 
> "Firefox is most popular in central and eastern Europe, with 
> 47.9 percent of Slovenian surfers using Firefox during the 
> first week in July. Finland is in second place with 45.4 
> percent while Slovakia rounds out the 40 percent club with 
> 40.4 percent of its residents using Firefox. Firefox has 
> passed the 30 percent barrier in 11 other countries, 
> including Poland with 39.6 percent, Germany with 38.0 
> percent, and Austria with 30.7 percent."
> 
> <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-europeans-embra
ce-firefox-in-
> record-numbers.html>

I don't know how XiTiMonitor derive their stats, but here at the largest
digital services agency in Europe, we have access to real (not derived)
stats for a great deal of large, and in some cases very large, consumer
brand sites over a wide sector spread. Admittedly, few of those are for
Eastern Europe, mainly because those markets are very small right now.

The highest FF usage we're seeing is Germany with about 11-12%. The UK
and Italy are around 5-8%. 

Jonathan


PS: I would think that it would be a function of Windows's installed
base that no more than about 25% of users in *any* country would have
the knowledge, or indeed the interest right now to install and use FF
over IE. That would provide a clue that the XiTiMonitor stats are at
least somewhat inflated. 

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