On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Chris More <cm...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Does anyone know or could any of you create a breakdown of the major blocks > of the Firefox installer and each of their respective sizes or percentage of > the whole? > > For example, the win32 installer for Firefox 32 is 34MB. The Firefox Growth > team [1] like to know of that 34MB, what is the percentage or size of each of > the components within the 34MB. As for the granularity of the breakdown, it > would be by some logic way of breaking down Firefox. For example, > SpiderMonkey, tools, XUL, etc. I'll leave the granularity up to you on what > you consider a logic block to quantify together. > > Why am I asking this? > > The win32 Firefox full installer continues to grow (see attachment) each > release and it has been on an increasing growth since Firefox 29. Like > anything on the web, the time it takes to download something (webpage, binary > file, etc.) affects the key conversion rate by some amount. The Firefox > Growth team has a project to understand what features/changes in Firefox are > contributing to the growth or size of the installer. We've asked a few times > previously, but it doesn't look like the documentation or analysis exist. > > Would anyone be able to take on this project as it would be very helpful to > the team? I am imagining a pie chart of the the current installer and then a > table of the name of each component, their size (KB or MB), and any > additional meta data. > > Thanks, > Chris > > [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Growth_Team > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
The simplest way to break the installer down is by the files in it. e.g. http://khuey.pastebin.mozilla.org/6781501 File boundaries are a reasonably logical division to start with. Once you've identified which files are growing/being added over time we can explain what those are and where the growth comes from (in terms of features/etc). - Kyle _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
