Re: FLASH: Flash: Flash Player 4 Statistics?

[John Dowdell]

At 2:45 AM 8/4/99, Claudius Albat wrote:

> the flash player stats on the macromedia website tells nothing

> about the Flash Player 4 penetration - did anybody know a report

> or future report?


You're right, there's not a set of discrete Flash 4 stats up there yet.

Each quarter an independent auditor measures how many consumers can

actually see specific content pages without downloading anything. The last

audit took place before Flash 4 had a significant audience, and then

there's some lag time while the testing results are brought together and

published.


In the meantime, between these quarterly updates, the numbers are updated

daily by the mean download rate. This can give an approximation of new

machines, but it will take a few quarters of comparison before there's a

good estimate of how many of the current Flash 4 downloads are updates, and

how many are actually new installations.


What I'm seeing often is that people just specify the Flash 4 Player... if

a site needs the features, then it's very easy to get. You can always set

up a SWF4 file with MP3-style compression and say "If you can't hear the

music, click here" to weed out the non-F4 machines.


I know the above info is sort of chunked-together, but does any of it

provide a possible useful context there...?


jd







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