> -----Original Message----- > From: dev-platform [mailto:dev-platform- > bounces+rstrong=mozilla....@lists.mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Chris Peterson > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 9:25 PM > To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > Subject: Re: Breakdown of Firefox full installer > > On 10/13/14 5:37 PM, Chris Hofmann wrote: > > and from last year " Firefox installer size: How big is too big? - 2013" > > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.dev.planning/instal > > ler$20size/mozilla.dev.planning/hPgUBzweL70/NeOjEf0hsh0J > > That thread about installer size was regarding the (controversial) inclusion of 3 > MB of ICU data for SpiderMonkey's ECMA-402 i18n API. > > Chris More organized a funnelcake experiment (bug 933847) to inflate the > Firefox 25 installer by 3 MB. The report's conclusions: > > * Increasing the download size from 22MB to 25MB had no statistical affect on > conversion rates, so we landed ICU. > > * (Countries' average) Internet speed dramatically affected conversion > rates: 70% success in the fastest countries and 30% in the slowest countries. Note that these conversion rates are from download to hitting the first run page and there are several factors that dramatically lower the conversion rate outside of the actual stub installer portion of the process. When just measuring the conversion rate from clicking install in the stub installer the conversion rate is actually close to 90%.
Robert > Going forward, it would be interesting to see a dashboard track Firefox installer > size every day (or show every changeset's delta on Treeherder). > > > chris > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
