Display Usage

This page is a part of "Actual Browser Sizes"

Before we look at the actual browser usage. Let's take a look at screen itself.

Screen resolutions

1024x768 is not surprisingly the dominant screen resolution, but 800x600 has dropped to only 5%. The interesting thing to notice is that large screen resolutions are growing strong. It was only a few years ago when 800x600 was the dominant size and very high resolution screens simply didn't exists.

Optimizing for small screens is still relevant if you want to support mobile devices, like PDA's, mobile phones and varies forms of mobile game boxes. A usage trend I expect to grow over the coming years.

Display ratios

Widescreen usage is surprisingly high at 16%, probably because of the many widescreens that has been introduced within the past years. Tablet and dual screen usage is still very rare - both at about 0.8%

Screen colors

Nothing new here...

Comments

dmc - Apr. 17, 2007

You know that 1280x1024 (20% of your sample) is 5:4, not 4:3, right? I assume you're just using "4:3" as a generic term for "not widescreen".

Right now I'm posting this comment from 1280x1024 screen rotated to portrait, so I guess at 4:5 I'm something of an outlier ;-)

Thomas Baekdal - Apr. 17, 2007

Yes, 4:3 is used in a generic way.

BTW: you are not the only one to be using a rotated screen. The analysis even found one person using a dual screen both displayed rotated and in a above/below layout. That person screen resolution was: 1050x1400x2 (or 1050x2800px). I cannot remember if he was browsing maximized though.

john stell - Oct. 1, 2007

Hi,

Thanks for the information - knowing you can design a site for people with browsers 1000+ wide is great to know. Having more real estate i can use is wonderful - i think i'll go with a 3 column layout with content in the middle.

john

Display Usage

Screen resolutions

Display ratios

Screen colors

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