We wrote about the results of our Firefox campaign a couple of days ago. In short, a free offer made lots of people switch web browsers to Firefox. We had expected that a lot of people would install Firefox and come back to our website to be able to be able to sign up for a free Pingdom account, but it was very interesting to see how many actually did it.

As the saying goes; if you don’t try it, you will never know. Now we know. You can change user behavior with offers like these, even for something as relatively complex as installing a new web browser.

We are not the only ones who think that these results are interesting. Reklamfeber, probably the largest ad news site in Sweden, and the always interesting Adland wrote about it this Tuesday. It was also mentioned on Adrants, another ad news site.

It is also obvious from some of the reader comments to these posts that IE vs. Firefox is still a very hot topic. We took the liberty of translating a reader comment by a frustrated web designer from the Swedish Reklamfeber site:

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Internet Explorer could die? What a dream it would be to design websites! You would save so much time! One should actually send MS a huge invoice for all the hours spent on making customers’ websites look good in IE.

We really like Firefox a lot. It is the default browser in the Pingdom offices and we even created a Firefox extension called Mr Uptime. Though perhaps we wouldn’t go quite as far as the guy we just quoted, it is an interesting comment because it really demonstrates how strongly some people feel about Firefox and IE.

There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.

So now the question is, when will Google also wrestle down Internet Explorer, and become the undisputed king of the browser world? In December 2011, Chrome 15 became the most popular browser in the world, beating Internet Explorer 8, but if you combine all IE versions, Microsoft still holds the number 1 spot.

Equipped with the latest web browser statistics from StatCounter, we set out to see when Chrome is likely to achieve more than 50% market share.

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Want to see how your favorite US sports site is doing, if it has a perfect 100% uptime score or not? If you want to check the latest scores and it isn’t working, could it be a problem with your computer or connection, or the site? We’ve got the solution for you!

For some time now we’ve been monitoring 34 major US sports and news sites related to sports. Our recent articles on the Super Bowl are a result of that monitoring.

Now you can look at how these sites are doing yourself on the public reports page for this list of US sports websites.

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Who has not used Google Maps? Raise your hand! Since the launch 7 years ago, Google Maps has become the de facto map service that users around the world go to for all their mapping needs.

As we say Happy Birthday to Google Maps, read on to find out some of the critical milestones in its history, and some amazing numbers and statistics.

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In 2010, there were just over 1 million secure Internet websites worldwide. Almost half of those, or 446,992 to be exact, were located in the United States.

But in which country can we find the most secure websites in relation to population? The answer may surprise you.

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The New England Patriots held what seemed to be a commanding lead (17-15) with five minutes left of Super Bowl XLVI last night. But the New York Giants came back and managed to win with 21-17.

As exciting as the game sounds, we missed the whole thing, instead spending our time watching the Superbowl.com website.

It turned out to be a rather dull thing to do because the site held up well and there was no downtime at all. The response time also didn’t give away anything significant in terms of online Super Bowl traffic.

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