Remember what I said about statistics?
A few days ago I wrote about the tremendous gains that Silverlight has made in install base. I referred to the stats on http://www.riastats.com and it looks like they've made a change in their statistics gathering.
The original article is here:
http://www.bluerosegames.com/SilverlightBrassTacks/post/Olympics2c-DNC-a-boon-for-Silverlight.aspx
If found a comment from Travis of DreamingWell who wrote riastats.com on this blog post:
http://www.sitechno.com/Blog/IsSilverlightMarketshareReallyGrowingThisFast.aspx
Travis says:
Hey guys. I wrote the RiaStats.com site.
The jump comes from several silverlight bloggers adding the riastats collection script to their site. Because they have a ton of subscribers versus the other sites that use it, the statistics are skewed. However, it should still be interesting to note that you can get that high a percentage, if you put silverlight on your site.
When I get a chance, I'm going to add a feature that allows you filter out sites that are specifically about silverlight or flash from the data aggregation.
Travis - DreamingWell.com
I want to note that I wasn't one of the Silverlight bloggers that did this, and I don't know who they are. That change has been made, and now the numbers seem to be a bit more realistic. On August 1, Silverlight 2 had a 1.01% install base, and Silverlight 1 had a 8.12% install base. Today, Silverlight 2 has 10.34%, and Silverlight 1 has 6.89%. This still totals 17.23% for Silverlight installs which means that the Silverlight install base almost doubled in August.
So not the huge jump it originally looked like, but still respectable.