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Flash Used on 5% of All Websites, Down From 28.5% Seven Years Ago

posted by chromas on Saturday April 21 2018, @02:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the made-with-macromedia dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Only 4.9 percent of today's websites utilize Flash code, a number that has plummeted from a 28.5 percent market share recorded at the start of 2011.

The number, courtesy of web technology survey site W3Techs, confirms Flash's decline, and a reason why Adobe has decided to retire the technology at the end of 2020.

[...] On the client side, browser makers are expected to remove Flash support from their products altogether by the end of 2020 —Flash's end-of-life date.

2020 can't come soon enough.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/flash-used-on-5-percent-of-all-websites-down-from-285-percent-seven-years-ago/

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday April 22 2018, @06:29PM

    by Arik (4543) on Sunday April 22 2018, @06:29PM (#670423) Journal
    Without being widely adopted, none.

    With wide adoption, it would be a big help, not a solution necessarily, but a big move in the right direction at the web layer. Because web devs would be forced to again think about scripting rather than simply piling it on by default whether it serves any purpose or not.

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