I follow blogs about SL with quite some interest and found this site: http://riastats.com/ . It basically tracks browsers to see if Flash and Silverlight is installed. You can clearly see that SL has a long way to go, but I was still amazed to see that SL had almost 25% share already.

Looking at the line graph, you can see that in the last week, SL 2 market share has grown extremely rapidly. That makes this post by John Dowdell (from Adobe) outdated, since he was only seeing a 2% share at the moment of writing. The mere fact that he uses these numbers, lend some kind of credibility.

I’m very interested in seeing the statistics from some other sites. Keep in mind that riastats base these numbers on only 18,600 unique browsers and do not disclose which sites are used (for all we know, they are Silverlight blogs :) ).
When numbers seem too good to be true, they usually are.

In any case though, I will keep my eye on the statistics the next few weeks!

ps. if you know of other statistics sites that show SL reach, leave a comment.