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.
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.
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%
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Published: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
in reports » actual-browser-sizes
by Thomas Baekdal
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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.
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
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dmc
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 ;-)