On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 05:37:23PM -0700, Chris Hofmann wrote: > On 10/13/14 5:09 PM, Kyle Huey wrote: > >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 > > one thing to add on Kyle's analysis and numbers is to zip all the files back > up individually
7zip, not zip. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
