{"id":174,"date":"2012-02-26T17:14:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T23:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bubblemedia2.wpengine.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2013-09-04T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T01:00:40","slug":"whats-bad-flash-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s So Bad About Flash on my Website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>100 million iPhones and 50 million iPads.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the estimate for Apple unit sales in 2012 alone. And, Adobe Flash runs on none of them. Those numbers are a large part of the reason Adobe abandoned mobile Flash development last year. Adobe\u2019s announcement means that even the newer non-Apple devices won\u2019t be supporting Flash either such as Google Android-based phones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>Not only are iPhone, iPad and mobile devices increasing in number, they are also increasing as a percentage of website traffic recently accounting for almost 8% of all Internet traffic. But that number is a little misleading since it is growing so rapidly having doubled from just a few months previously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But Wait, There\u2019s More Bad News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not only are Flash websites not supported by mobile devices, they are also not supported by Google search. Google, which analyzes text on a website to determine search engine placement and result rankings, often has little or no textual content to work with on a Flash-based website. Though Flash looks good to users viewing your site on their computer,\u00a0Flash looks like a blank page to Google.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want Your Website to Work on iPhones and iPads?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in making your website deliver results from mobile and tablet visitors, plus generating the best results from Google searchers, give us a call.\u00a0 Our affordable and sales-focused solutions are ideal for maximizing results and minimizing costs. We promise we&#8217;ll make it easy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 million iPhones and 50 million iPads. That\u2019s the estimate for Apple unit sales in 2012 alone. And, Adobe Flash runs on none of them. Those numbers are a large part of the reason Adobe abandoned mobile Flash development last year. Adobe\u2019s announcement means that even the newer non-Apple devices won\u2019t be supporting Flash either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-websites"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}