On 2014-10-14, 6:53 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:11:01AM -0700, Chris More wrote:
Very interesting. When Firefox 4 was launched, it was 12MB. When
Australis was launched it was 28MB. Now, Firefox 33 is 35MB. That's
almost a 200% increase. I did an A/B test last year when the installer
was 22MB and there was a strong correlation between average internet
speed in a specific region of the world and install-rate of Firefox.
If world-wide internet speeds are not increasing faster than the
growth of the installer, it could be having a negative impact on
adoption of the product. By how much? No one is for sure as the A/B
test was just testing the current size of Firefox and one 3MB bigger.
The conclusion of the test was that 22mB vs 25MB didn't have a
statistical difference in conversion rate, but now a year later, we
are more than 10MB bigger.
It looks like everyone provided helpful information and this is a
great start. I am going to work on creating a document to help to
quantify what are the drivers in the growth of the installer. After
that we can decide what does this tell us and if the growth of the
installer has negative impacts.
On the other hand, what is the download size of the downloadable
alternatives to Firefox? What is their adoption in regions with poor
internet speeds? If the answer to both those questions is "bigger",
(which I genuinely don't know if it is) there is nothing wrong with
our download size.
Coming from a country with typically slow Internet connections, I
strongly disagree. We should absolutely strive to be better than the
competition by providing a smaller download size. Only matching the
competition should be the minimum bar. :)
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