Re: FLASH: % of users with flash player.

[Gregg Caines]

It might be easier to count how many pages are

viewed by someone with Flash, rather than count

how many 'people' have flash, since it is so hard to

keep track of people without using cookies, and

even then you don't know if the same person is on

the same machine, etc, etc...


You could have a self-detecting sniffer movie, figure

out the version and report it to a server-side database.

That method should fail gracefully in browsers that

don't have the plug-in.  It seems like with 3,000,000

'visitors' (I don't know how you test if they're unique

visitors, but maybe you mean 'hits') you've got a lot

of people coming to the site that aren't necessarily

going through the first page.  I think you'll have to forget

about them though, because putting a sniffer on all

pages would be too complex.  You should get pretty

reliable numbers testing on the first page....just make

sure you also log how many people _don't_ have the

plug-in too, so you're not comparing apples to oranges.


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

> I am working on a web site which has around 3'000'000 visitors per month

and we

> want to know which % of them are having the flash plugin and which

version.

>

> If the number is heigh enough, we will go for flash as much as possible

:-)

>

> How will you do?

>

> Thanks a lot for any feedback because it is a very important question.

>

> Marc




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