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Firefox Site Visits Up 237%

Posted by samzenpus on from the still-growing dept.

prostoalex writes "Nielsen//NetRatings, a top Web reporting and metrics agency, started tracking the Firefox Web site in June 2004 and has announced 237% growth since then. Nielsen tracks Firefox Web site visits, not downloads or usage patterns, but it notes that "Men accounted for 71% or nearly 1.9 mln site visitors, compared to the women who comprised 29% or the minority population who visited in March 2005.""

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  1. Men versus women??? by jarich · · Score: 0, Redundant
    How the heck can they tell that w/o spyware??

    Does Nielson put boxes on people's computers (like they do w/TVs) to track where people go or are they using spyware?

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    1. Re:Men versus women??? by SurfaceMount · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Women are better at multitasking, they tend to open more tabs on the webpage than men............

      Or just Spyware, people go to the Firefox webpage with their IE in order to download Firefox to replace the spyware infested IE.

      I wont be to happy if the Firefox page are supporting these web tracking companys, seems a bit hypocritical when a big point of Firefox is to avoid these people.

  2. Men? Women? by Rick+Zeman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Since when did Firefox advertise the chromosomes of the user? Did I miss an extension or something?

  3. How!? by gaurzilla · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "Men accounted for 71% or nearly 1.9 mln site visitors, compared to the women who comprised 29% or the minority population who visited in March 2005."


    How do they know this? How do they gather such demographical information? Kinda weird since I usually consider my online activities quite gender free... especially if I'm not filling any forms.
  4. Of course, Firefox is the default home page... by kikensei · · Score: 1, Redundant

    on any release since 1.0. So all the people that tried out the browser, default to the Firefox google search page on browser launch.