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.