Adobe Flash vs Java
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Adobe Flash · Java · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
14
129
Open Page Rank 8+
110
2,282
Open Page Rank 7+
263
8,817
Open Page Rank 6+
365
15,329
Open Page Rank 5+
484
23,495
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Adobe Flash · Java · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,072
104,685
India
1,653
47,632
Germany
1,187
34,304
United Kingdom
883
34,317
Canada
695
30,484
Brazil
927
29,569
Indonesia
843
29,625
France
1,058
28,165
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Adobe Flash | Java |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Adobe Flash to Java
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| renewalbyandersen.com | Oct 2025 |
| corrientessistemas.com.ar | Sep 2025 |
Java to Adobe Flash
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| pssny.org | Mar 2026 |