20.65% of the top 5000 sites use Flash ?

Sep 132007
 

This result surprised me, really. I thought that it would be much higher. I understand that it is not a worldwide statistics but app. 1/5 of top 5000 sites using Flash is really not a good sign or is it?
Hard to find information to compare Flash against other technologies, maybe because Flash is quite alone on this market? Silverlight, want to compete with Flash but it represents only 0.08% of the top 5000 website (ok they are too young on the market). We could also think about Javascipt / Ajax to build the same user experience but I couldn’t find any stats about the use of Javascript on top websites.
We could try to analyze this from the user point of view. Adobe claims that 90% of the web users on mature market have Flash Player 9 installed (in June 2007) and 99% got Flash Player 7 installed. That might lead us to think Flash is very commonly used on the web, but cannot inform us about the top website. For Javascript, the penetration is 96% (4% don’t have Javascript in September 2007).

Final conclusion, with a so deep penetration of the Flash Player we can only be happy to develop for the Flash Player ;)

Ahmet

Internet Video: A Stream Becomes a Virtual Deluge

Jun 292007
 

[Via Natiw]

70 percent of Internet users streamed video online in March this year…

Read the post from Natiw

Ahmet

Flash Player 9 Penetration

Apr 192007
 

Flash CS3 logo
Yesterday I wrote about the new “CS3 essential training” from Lynda and said that the penetration for the Flash Player 9 was about 50%. I had a comment from Benz that told me the penetration of the Flash Player is 83.4% according to Emmy Huang’s blog.

Those number are higher that what I observed on different website I work on, even on this blog (oriented on Flash), the stats are 80% but this is not trustable with my poor 300 visitors/days.

Anyway it’s a great news as I’m wanting to work on Flash 9 at work, and good stats always are a good argument ;)

Ahmet

110 000 downloads of the Apollo runtime

Apr 102007
 

Apollo Project Logo
Great news coming from Ryan Stewart blog’s on Zdnet.He asked to Mike Chambers about the number of downloaded Apollo runtime. Answer 110’000 :)
In terms of penetration of an alpha runtime I guess it’s a quite good results. Even if I’m sure that the cool tools build by the community will make this number increase very quickly.

Read the complete question-answer.

Ahmet

Buzz Monitoring about Adobe Apollo

Mar 152007
 

Technorati Chart

Here’s a quick post to show the number of post containing “Adobe Apollo”. I post it here because I had already see some chart of Technorati, but never found were it was… (okay maybe it’s obvious but forgive my blindness).
This tool is very useful for marketer but it’s not the only tool that we can use to monitor the result of our web-marketing.
Others free tools usable to monitor buzz :

  • Ice Rocket, it allows us to compare trend
  • Blog Pulse, also compare trends
  • Google Trends, useful for geo-localized trend

    • It’s not so much that I’m a fan a buzz monitoring, but it’s a big part of the thesis that I’m writing, normally in march 30 it will finally be finished! I’ll post a lot more about buzz and web-marketing after this date.

    Please if anyone know other free tool to monitor buzz and trends please comment or contact me (top right).
    Ahmet

    Trends Stats 2.0 in Politics

    Mar 052007
     

    A graph comparing book sales on computer languages between January 2006 and January 2007 revealed that ActionAcript book represented less than 5% of the market [via O'Reilly Radar].
    Let’s compare this stats with a blog analyses, just to see how much blogging and buzz can be taken seriously for a new way of making statistics. I used blogpulse to make a graph comparing the buzz about javascript, actionscript and Java.

    BooksTrends

    Flash Trends

    Obviously in this case we can tust blog to see how people react in the real world.
    And what if we do politic stat with blog analyses? For example in the French presidential election I compared the big 3 names in no particular order: François Bayrou, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ségolène Royal (sorry for the others …)

    French presidential election Stats
    Well what can we see? According to the latest statistic made by ipsos for lepoint the stats extracted from the buzz trends seems correct. These tools are great for ego-surfing but even greater for social statistics.
    This year it’s really the beging of presidential election 2.0, the candidates in France and as far as I know also in US are using the web very more agresivly. A funny example, try the website chirac.com, you’ll be surprised ;)

    Ahmet

    Internet Report 2006

    Feb 162007
     

    The Internet Report of 2006 is out (since December) by ITU (International Telecommunication Union). It’s small and free, there’s a lot of interesting graph there :)
    Ex1 Ex2

    Have it from the digital.life.

    Ahmet

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