As FireFox's popularity and overall public usage continues to grow (I'm not sure what today's market share is between FireFox users and Internet Explorer users) both website designers and search engine marketing specialists will need to ensure that they remain in perspective with the Internet audience... and that means developing websites with the FireFox browser in mind.

I finally got around to optimizing my website and this Blog for the FireFox browser, in which, as I now think about it it's kind of embarrassing seeing how my website is nearing 2 years old. As often as I tell my clients that their websites need to be optimized for FireFox, as well as for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, here I am not practicing what I preach. Well, its time that I start drinking my own Kool-Aid.

My website is somewhere in the neighborhood of 225 - 250 pages, and it grows each week by a page or 2. With that, it took me just a little over a month to review over each page's source code, make adjustments, and verify that each page formatted correctly in the FireFox browser. Then again, I was only working on it in my "spare" time which amounted to an hour here and there. Just imagine how long it would have taken me if I waited another year.

So... for what its worth I apologize to all of my FireFox users, and thank those that stuck with me even though my website obviously formatted like shit. Rest assure that from now on any new changes, including the adding of new pages, will be pre-optimized for FireFox.

I leave you all with this:

A quick check in my website stats shows that 25.6% of my website visitors are using the FireFox Browser. That's a quarter of the people who view my Blog. Geez... that's a lot of people! Knowing this... I can't help but wonder how many Blog readers / website visitors / potential clients I've lost simply because my pages weren't formatting correctly in FireFox. To them... it would have looked like an ugly or broken website.

Is your website optimized for the FireFox browser? What percentage of visitors / readers / leads / clients / customers are you loosing on the account that its not?