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4.9% of Websites Use Flash, Down From 28.5% in 2011 (bleepingcomputer.com)
Web makers continue to ditch the infamous Flash for other safer, improved technologies. In 2011, more than 28.5 percent of websites used Flash in their code, a figure technology survey site W3Techs estimates to have dropped to 4.9 percent today. BleepingComputer: The number confirms Flash's decline, and a reason why Adobe has decided to retire the technology at the end of 2020. A decline from 28.5 percent to 4.9 percent doesn't look that bad, but we're talking about all Internet sites, not just a small portion of Top 10,000 or Top 1 Million sites. Taking into account the sheer number of abandoned sites on today's Internet, the decline is quite considerable, and W3Techs' findings confirm similar statistics put out by a Google security engineer in February.
I realize many want flash to disappear as soon as possible, and i won't make myself popular when i say 'too bad it'll go, it has it's uses'.
For video we (finally) have some workable alternatives. But for a lot of online games, and some educational or engineering tools, flash still rocks. HTML5, webasm or your favorite game engine exported to html5/webasm usually have big performance issues and 'weird bugs'. Flash just-works and has its uses.
Yes, some websites abused flash, up to the point of making dozens of navigation buttons as flash content, giving it a bad reputation. And of course, it's been haunted by security issues.
Don't get me wrong. I'm happy html5 is here. I do hate installing/updating flash plugins. But i also do think it has some valid use cases, not in the last place legacy support.