Flash Used on 5% of All Websites, Down From 28.5% Seven Years Ago

Found on Bleeping Computer on Thursday, 19 April 2018
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Taking into account the sheer number of abandoned sites on today's Internet, the decline is quite considerable, and W3Tech's findings confirm similar statistics put out by a Google security engineer in February.

With Flash usage numbers going down, by the time the end of 2020 comes around and Adobe stops all Flash support, the technology would be an afterthought for most users, except the few sysadmin souls trapped into supporting the aging tech on desperately outdated corporate networks and apps.

4.9% is still too much. When it comes to that giant security hole, 0% is the only option.