FlashTM Industry Survey
Some time ago TemplateMonster along with a number of media partners has held a Flash industry survey in order to try to determine the future of a Flash technology based on the opinion of a target audience.
Over 10,000 people took part in a survey and have expressed their priceless opinions, and we want to thank these people for their time. Now that the survey is over we're happy to share the stats as well as our comments on them.
FlashTM Industry Figures
- Flash CS5 (31%)
- Flash CS4 (30%)
- Flash CS3 (19%)
- I don't use Flash Software (11%)
- Flash 8 (9%)
- ActionScript 2 (28%)
- ActionScript 3 (23%)
- I don't work with ActionScript (30%)
- No difference between AS2 & AS3 (19%)
them while creating Flash websites. 40% don't care about it.
Flash websites are known to be harder for search engines to index. 78% of the users think SEO in Flash is important. Such SEO features as content indexing capability, editable URLs and meta data are critical for 85%.
- Yes, SEO in Flash does matter to me (78%)
- No, SEO doesn't matter to me in Flash (22%)
Flash and HTML5 are considered to be rivals on the web market. However 67% of users believe these two technologies can coexist in peace.
- I believe they can coexist peacefully (67%)
- I support HTML5 (18%)
- I support FlashTM (15%)
At the same time 49% of users are planning to start working on HTML5 projects as well:
- I'll start working on HTML5 projects as well (49%)
- I'm sure it won't change anything in the way I work (37%)
- I'll stick to Flash (14%)
FlashTM CMS and Flash Editing
As many as 88% of users do need to edit their Flash websites in one of the several ways.
At the same time 84% of the users have never even worked with Flash CMS of any type
- No, I've never worked with Flash CMS (84%)
- Yes, I did work with it (16%)
What type of Flash editing do you use?
- I use the ordinary Flash software to edit them (65%)
- I use XML (19%)
- I use Flash CMS (11%)
- I don't have an opportunity to edit Flash websites (5%)
57% of the people to have used Flash CMS are mostly happy about it, 23% are extremely happy, 19% aren't happy.
- Mostly happy (57%)
- Extremely happy (23%)
- Completely unhappy (19%)
Most of the FlashCMS users consider WYSIWYG editor to be the most important FlashCMS feature
- Editing content with a WYSIWYG editor (46%)
- Adding as many pages as I want (14%)
- Additing as many website sections as I want (14%)
- Gallery (13%)
- Multimedia features (13%)
94% of users have never worked with shopping cart for Flash.
- No, I've never worked with it (94%)
- Yes, I have
75% of the users do not plan to start working
with Flash shopping cart
Rating of Flash CMS platforms used by the audience:
- 1. Moto CMS (formerly FlashMoto)*
- 2. Custom Flash CMS
- 3. Gaia
- 4. Spry
- 5. Flashblocks
* The survey was initiated by TemplateMonster.com and voters were mainly TemplateMonster's audience which
may partially explain why Moto CMS is a leader in the Flash CMS rating.
FlashTM websites General Attitude Figures
38% of the users claim that all of Flash website features attract them.
28% say it's the animation that they appreciate the most.
- All variants (38%)
- Animation (28%)
- Effects (20%)
- Functionality (8%)
- Graphics (5%)
- Other variant (1%)
26% of users think Flash is good for website of any topic. 25% are
sure Flash is best for Art and Photography projects.
- Any Topic (26%)
- Art and Photography (25%)
- Entertainment (14%)
- Corporate / Business (13%)
- Galleries (10%)
- Microsite for a brand or
a product (9%) - Cafe and Restaurant (3%)
Almost 90% of the users are sure that Flash
elements in static
websites (presentations, videos etc.)
are useful for user experience.
- Yes, they are useful (87%)
- No, they are irritating (13%)
77% of the audience agree that Flash websites should have version
optimized for mobile devices.
- Yes, I do think they should have mobile versions (77%)
- No, I don't think that's necessary (23%)
