Comments on: Screen resolution statistics

By: Joan

Joan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:46:35 +0000

Thank you very much for this statistics.
I googled “web programming screen resolution”, and your page turned up first with excactly the information, I needed. Perfect :-)

By: Bill Murphy

Bill Murphy — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:08:53 +0000

Thank you for the very useful information that you provide. New pages under design at this site required careful consideration of screen resolution popularity.

By: Michael Bloch

Michael Bloch — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:44:47 +0000

Thanks for your input Benson and Tawney!

By: Benson

Benson — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:47:05 +0000

In my experience, most of the designer(mac user) they are not browse with the window maximised. It is because mac using larger screen and Safari(browser on mac) did not maximised like IE in windows, the behaviour is different. For programming the site sometimes you need to make the designer happy. Because sometimes the user aren’t only designer, they may be art director or cooperation image director. So the simplest way is write script to make it be the size you want.

By: Tawney

Tawney — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:13:08 +0000

I am a network engineer, I never see any of the users in any of our business networks use a non-maximised browser window. Also on a personal perspective, I do not know of anybody who has ever browsed with a window not maximised.

By: Michael Bloch

Michael Bloch — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:45:29 +0000

Hi Richard, most people I observe (which isn’t all that many these days I admit compared to when I was training folks in a classroom environment) run a maximized window.

By: Richard Powell

Richard Powell — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:59:51 +0000

I’ve noticed this trend myself over a number of websites. The interesting question though is what size browser windows do most visitors use?

I never browse with the window maximised, and I haven’t observed anybody else do it either.
So it can’t be assumed that screen size equates to the browser window size of the viewer.
How then to work out the best browser width to target? There may be some correlation between screen size and browser window size (browser window will be less than or equal to the maximum screen size)

By: Ern

Ern — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:26:12 +0000

Thank you for this very useful info.
I feel this is important for many to know, and helps webmasters to give a better experience to readers.