Agreed. We should always strive to do the best that we possibly can and focus our efforts on the areas with the greatest impact.
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ehsan Akhgari" <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> > To: "Mike Hommey" <m...@glandium.org>, "Chris More" <cm...@mozilla.com> > Cc: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org, "Daniel Veditz" <dved...@mozilla.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 6:03:30 PM > Subject: Re: Breakdown of Firefox full installer > > 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. :) > _______________________________________________ > 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
