Awesome. If only the UK was so technologically advanced.

Not exactly sure, but I think it must be a fairly decent sample size since using their filters and drill-downs, which serve to limit further, still results in adequate results. For example, taking the same Flash trend chart I linked to in my last post, but adding filters for just FireFox, running on MAC, referred from Google and in a residential IP block, the results here still look pretty valid:

http://www.statowl.com/flash_trend.php?timeframe=last_6&interval=month&chart_id=11&fltr_br=Firefox&fltr_os=Mac&fltr_se=Google&fltr_cn=Residential

As a matter of fact, it’s actually kind of interesting to see how much slower MAC users are in updating to Flash 10 compared to Windows users. MAC shows 13.83% using Flash 10 in February (http://www.statowl.com/flash_trend.php?timeframe=last_6&interval=month&chart_id=11&fltr_br=&fltr_os=Mac&fltr_se=&fltr_cn=), while Windows is at 51.82% (http://www.statowl.com/flash_trend.php?timeframe=last_6&interval=month&chart_id=11&fltr_br=&fltr_os=Windows&fltr_se=&fltr_cn=)!

It actually looks like they haveFlash 10 usage at 48.3% for February. The link I sent is for the past 6 months which shows an average of 31.6%. It’s a little easier to see visually using their trend charting:
http://www.statowl.com/flash_trend.php?1=1&timeframe=last_6&interval=month&chart_id=13&fltr_br=&fltr_os=&fltr_se=&fltr_cn=&chart_id=11

And in a comment on my previous post Richard Jahmarkt has recommended http://www.statowl.com/flash.php for player tracking – also Flash-based incidentally – which currently gives a very similar overall figure but surprisingly low version 10 penetration.

Good catch on the misspelling in the title! Whooops!

I’ve thought long and hard about releasing the list of sites that collect the RIAStats information, but the cons far out weigh the pros. The biggest reason I havn’t released the list, is that I don’t want to make public the private traffic statistics of each site. That information could affect their advertising and valuation revenues, and that’s just something I’m not willing to do.

I have plans to make the data more transparent. I think the first thing I’ll do is create a a candle stick chart to show the variations of statistics collected across the sites (listed anonymously).

I understand people’s perception that because the site was made with Adobe Flex (and plays in Flash player), that the site might therefore be biased towards Adobe. But I can assure you I have no bias towards any technology or company. I made the site to help answer questions, not to create debate. Anyone can add the RIAStats.com 5 line javascript to their site. Site owners receive a customized RIAStats interface.

I’m glad you could make use of RIAStats. Please feel free to drop me a line on Twitter if you have any questions.

Silverlight offers some things that Flash doesn’t, but one of its biggest advantages, for the technically minded, is that it is XML based, so is, theoretically, much more open than Flash.

Part of that is because Millward-Brown measures consumer capabilities, while riastats.com measures the audiences of particular websites. If one person out of fifty visits a site by a mobile phone, that would suffice for the gap.

James’ advice about testing your site’s particular audience is right-on. The MB audits just show general consumer trends.

“… the truly ubiquitous HTML….”

Less than a quarter of us have Internet access:
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Phone networks have wider reach, but it’s harder for us to display these lower-cost devices. It will come, though.

jd/adobe

Open source has had to develop one separately.
So, just like mono, it will always lag behind with support for version X.xx

This is never good for consumers, whether they’re on Linux, MacOS, Solaris/OpenSolaris or Windows.

Fragmentation and the f**k you mentality is still preferred by Microsoft. They spoil the fun.