Comments on: Screen resolution statistics

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:30:07 +0000

Has anyone ever seen a product that would resize contents of webpage? I use .NET framework 2.0 to develop applications… I’m really starting to think about inventing a web browser that would resize content (ie. 1280×1024 would be resized/compressed into 1024×768)

I just experienced a problem. I developed a website with great graphics, but when my friend looked at it on a lower resolution screen, it looked really bad…. If a Webbrowser would compress the image to match screen resolution, we could still see one full page….

Just an idea…

By: Michael Bloch

Michael Bloch — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:45:25 +0000

I’ve just posted an update on screen resolution stats here (current for July 2007):

http://www.tamingthebeast.net/blog/web-development/screen-resolution-statistics-0707.htm

By: Michael Bloch

Michael Bloch — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:44:51 +0000

Thanks for the update - and I’m still one of the Magoos :). I’m finding myself having to increasingly scroll horizontally on many sites these days. I just took a peek at my own stats and it’s showing 8.48% of the 60k of visitors to TTB recently running 800×600; so that’s quite a drop since last time I checked.

By: refreshweb

refreshweb — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:27:00 +0000

10% of users are running 800 x 600px in mid 2007 - Mr Magoo is alive and surfing! ;)

By: Michael Bloch

Michael Bloch — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:08:04 +0000

Dane, that’s some heavy duty resolution you have running, but you certainly have the screen width to require it. I’m just running a 15″ notebook screen :)

By: Dane

Dane — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:35:51 +0000

Actually - I have a screen at 2560 x 1600. The Apple 30″ Cinema display - I highly recommend it…

By: Michael Bloch

Michael Bloch — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:51:01 +0000

Hey Max, thanks for the enlightenment!Mystery solved :)

By: MaxVT

MaxVT — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:03:30 +0000

To alleviate your “unnatural” display resolution worries, 2560×1024 are simply people who run a dual-screen setup (two 1280×1024 screens).

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:55:35 +0000

Of course there is the other issue of all the toolbars such as Google, Yahoo and assorted others the users have taking up real estate in the screens!!

Can’t program for that - can you??

By: Oli

Oli — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:45:33 +0000

Thanks for this info, very useful to have up-to-date data of this sort. Obviously the user-base changes from site to site but still very helpful. I predict the year will end with less than 1% using 800×600 or lower as people adopt 17″+ LCD monitors. Which will without doubt increase the 1280×1024 percentage. I think 1024×768 will remain the most common for the short- to medium-term though.