Flash Player Penetration – March 2009
Adobe have just released their latest Flash Player penetration stats, which suggest that Version 10 now has an approximate 75% penetration.
| Flash Player 7 | Flash Player 8 | Flash Player 9 | Flash Player 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mature Markets | 99.3% | 99.1% | 98.9% | 74.2% |
| US/Canada | 99.2% | 99.0% | 98.8% | 74.5% |
| Europe | 99.1% | 98.9% | 98.6% | 75.3% |
| Japan | 99.8% | 99.5% | 99.3% | 72.0% |
Previously Adobe’s own stats tended to be taken with at least a soupcon of salt, as they were based on visitors to their own site (who would obviously be more inclined to be Flash users), but in now employing third party market research for these statistics we might take them a little more seriously.
For an alternative view RIAstats offers some visual data too, which also puts FP10 around the three-quarters mark. Interestingly, they also give stats for Silverlight, Microsoft’s much mocked “Flash Killer“, which is now showing an actually rather impressive 25% uptake. I have slightly warmed to Silverlight in recent months, mostly thanks to conversations with Ed at Unwrong. It may yet be one to watch.
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January 14th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
[ironic on]RIAstats is *very* representative![ironic off]
You cannot enter the site without Flash installed! *lol*