Comments on: Flash penetration stats for March 2009 now live, graphs updated

By: Travis Collins

Travis Collins — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:38:12 +0000

RIAStats.com uses a javascript to detect flash, silverlight and java plugin versions/presence. Generally, web crawlers don’t execute javascript code, so therefore riastats would not be notified of their visit.

By: Arthur Debert

Arthur Debert — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:49:47 +0000

Hi Zeh.

Just a quick note: player 9 adoption was also fueled by better access control permissions, with a finer grained crossdomain and security model. This makes a big difference for big players (MySpace, YouTube), and if I recall correctly, they did have some input into the process.

Cheers

By: Zeh

Zeh — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:04:49 +0000

@jd: I guess I knew that (about how riastats and statowl do things), but thanks for the clarification, should aid readers. Also, I hadn’t taken robots into account – makes sense.

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:46:40 +0000

Hi Zeh, I’m not sure if there’s any change in acceleration… these four-times-a-year consumer audits are susceptible to which week in the quarter they’re conducted.

But Millward-Brown and RIAStats.com measure different things. The first gets a representative consumer sample and then tests their capability. RIAStats starts with a number of websites, and then tests their visitors. The latter will include spiders and robots in addition to consumers. (StatOwl didn’t seem to list a methodology.)

jd/adobe