I was just looking through the past six months of Analytics data and wondered what people were using these days for screen resolution. I knew screens were getting bigger, but this was surprising. Excluding handheld-size screens, only a miniscule 0.72% of my site visitors used screens less than 1024x768.
Looking at the data, the first thing that struck me was how wild and numerous the screen resolutions were. Right about 3500 visits yielded 44 different screen resolutions from 0x0 to 2560x1600 (I do indeed have monitor envy).
The top ten screen resolutions:
- 1280x800 - 20.19%
- 1680x1050 - 16.99%
- 1280x1024 - 16.42%
- 1440x900 - 13.8%
- 1920x1200 - 11.61%
- 1024x768 - 10.34%
- 1600x1200 - 1.81% notice huge dropoff
- 1152x864 - 1.56%
- 320x396 - 1.04%
- 1280x960 - 0.95%
Also noteworthy is that barely more than 1% of visits were from iPhones and other portable devices.
3500 visits should be a big enough sample size for these data to mean something. Of course, these were visits to my site. I’d like to see how that differs from average.
Anyone else have any numbers to share? Leave a comment.
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I’ve been seeing a lot of interesting numbers through Omniture. Mostly that even though people’s screen resolutions are getting bigger, their browser sizes aren’t. Pretty much, the larger resolution people don’t use their browsers at full screen. These numbers come from a completely different demographic than yours (pretty much baby-boomer, well-paid golfers).
Whereas the actual browser size widths are:
Just some interesting food for thought. Can we really rely on monitor resolutions on which to base design width?
by Jeffrey Meagher on April 20, 2009 at 10:33 am