SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: Macromedia's flash statisti
RE: SIGIA-L: Macromedia's flash statistics
From: Mike Kuniavsky (mikek_at_tired.com)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 21:01:44 EDT
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Chris Chandler wrote:
> I was surprised as well, but the message that came into my mailbox right
> before yours had a link to:
>
> http://www.thestandard.com/research/metrics/display/0,2799,12809,00.html
>
> Which indicates an installed base of over 97%(!) for the Flash plugin.
They use data from MyComputer.com that's based on analyzing the traffic to
a bunch of sites that use the SuperStats tracking program. The question
there is how representative the SuperStats sites are, relative to the Net
population as a whole. I'd also like to know how many sites use
SuperStats relative to the number of sites as a whole (and I know that
"site" is hard to define), and what the geographic/industry distributions
of those sites are. The fact that MyComputer has to advertise that they
exclude porn sites from the statistics gives me a hint that it may not be
used by many large, mainstream commercial sites.
http://websnapshot.mycomputer.com/aboutus.html
That said, the corroboration shows that Flash IS quite prevalent in the
industry and should not be ignored.
> These two reports, combined with a very provacative piece in A List Apart
> (http://www.alistapart.com/stories/sympathy/index.html) have got me
> seriously reconsidering my personal anti-Flash bias.
>
> --
> Christopher Chandler
> Information Architect
> Arc: eConsultancy
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A Light [mailto:sidhene_at_hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 4:06 PM
> > To: sigia-l_at_asis.org
> > Subject: SIGIA-L: Macromedia's flash statistics
> >
> >
> > Wow, that's really high. Am I the only one who finds these
> > numbers hard to
> > believe? Are there any other sources of info about this study?
> >
> > Sample Flash 2 Flash 3 Flash 4
> > US 91.8% 90.6% 74.1%
> > Canada 91.5% 88.4% 75.7%
> > Europe 89.7% 86.9% 73.7%
> > Asia 90.1% 82.2% 71.3%
> > South America 94.0% 86.7% 73.3%
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: erdman <cerdman_at_razorfish.com>
> > To: <sigia-l_at_asis.org>
> >
> > Flash statistics just released by Macromedia... research by IDC:
> > http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/
> >
> > cheers/ce
> >
> >
> >
> > > Does anyone out there know a site that gives statistics relevant to
> > > usability, such as the percentage of users currently on 800x600 as
> > opposed
> > > to 640x480 monitors, as well as percentages of users using
> > Flash 4.0, and
> > > which browsers are leading the pack by what percent? It
> > would help, too,
> > if
> > > the site were public, not requiring a corporate fee for
> > access (though
> > this
> > > is not a mandate). Any sites you could provide that I
> > could explore would
> > be
> > > much appreciated- thanks-
> > >
> > > Matthew D. Laliberte
> > > Flywire
> > >
> > > www.flywire.com
> > > T 603.430.3700 x153
> > > F 603.430.3766
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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Mike Kuniavsky
mikek_at_tired.com
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