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		<title>Does Your Website Use Flash? Do Your Visitors Use an iPhone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I was looking at Google analytics for a client&#8217;s site and something jumped off the page in a big way. One of our client&#8217;s has consistently averaged around 12% of their traffic from iphone visitors. This is a high traffic site (for a small business) and they target mostly consumers and luckily we built [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tonight I was looking at Google analytics for a client&#8217;s site and something jumped off the page in a big way. One of our client&#8217;s has consistently averaged around 12% of their traffic from iphone visitors. This is a high traffic site (for a small business) and they target mostly consumers and luckily we built their site without any Flash. Why does that matter? Adobe Flash, which is used to deliver 90% of the videos on the web (and other site content as well), doesn&#8217;t work on an iPhone. 
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<p>Seeing this number I decided to do a random sampling of four other clients accounts and they had 1.25%, 1.5%, 4.4%,  11% of their traffic from iPhone visitors. Some of these sites have a large of amount of visitors from iPhones.</p>
<p>What does this mean to you as a business owner with a website?</p>
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<li>If you are using Flash on your site, find a way to make it work without it.  &#8216;Degrade&#8217; your site gracefully so iPhone (and now iPad) users don&#8217;t experience a big blank spot or are unable to use or navigate.</li>
<li>Another option is to create a mobile version of your site so it works well (and more quickly) on mobile devices.</li>
<li>If you are in the middle of designing or building a website, look at your audience and decide how many of them are likely to use your site from an iPhone, iPad or similar device. If the number is significant – avoid using Flash or make sure you have an alternative &#8211; your users will thank you and the numbers of iPhone and iPad users are growing.</li>
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<p>Note: Since this site primarily is targeted to a marketing audience, I&#8217;m intentionally not getting into the HTML5 versus Flash debate. If you want to do that, feel free to post a comment below or via a reply to <a href="http://twitter.com/creativereason">me on twitter</a>.</p>
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