most boring question evar

March 10, 2008 1:56 PM

What percentage of users have Flash Player on their computer earlier than version 9.0.115.0?
posted by negative1 to technology (7 comments total)

Adobe's stats on Flash Player Penetration

so...98.3?
posted by cowbellemoo at 2:04 PM on March 10, 2008

As I understood the stats, wouldn't it be 4.3%?
posted by wsp at 2:16 PM on March 10, 2008

seconding wsp interpretation of the chart and question.
posted by phil at 2:39 PM on March 10, 2008

not quite sure how the versioning works (particularly how 9.0 compares to 9.0rX), but averaging a couple of sites I can view Analytics for:

9.0 is 45%
9.0r115 is 30%
9.0r47 is 10%
9.0r45 is 3%
8.0r22 is 3%
9.0r28 is 2%
9.048 is 2%
posted by gregjones at 2:55 PM on March 10, 2008

If I'm interpreting correctly, which is by no means guaranteed, the percentage of people with older versions must be less than 4.3%, because the 4.3% figure includes both people with older versions and people who don't have Flash installed at all.
posted by box at 2:55 PM on March 10, 2008

My Google Analytics stats (with a sampling of 100,000 visits yesterday) show almost exactly the same numbers as gregjones. So I'd say that's pretty accurate.
posted by helios at 3:52 PM on March 10, 2008

metachat.org top 10...
(probably equivalant to metafilter.com percentages)
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9.0 r115 - 28.69%
9.0 - 26.49%
9.0 r47 - 14.24%
9.0 r28 - 11.10%
9.0 r16 - 6.81%
9.0 r45 - 5.48%
(not set) - 2.57%
9.0 r20 - 1.02%
8.0 - 0.69%
8.0 r22 - 0.65%

Slightly different to helios, but we get a fraction of that traffic so I'd go with helios.
posted by seanyboy at 4:07 PM on March 10, 2008