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Preliminary surfer browser resolution results.

There's always the discussion about whether or not designing for 800x600 is still vaild or not. The argument against it is that most computers sold these days are at least 1024x768, However, that doesn't necessarily mean that the surfer browses full screen.

So I'm running some tests on a small site using javascript to grab the actual "window" width etc. There's some issues with it that I need to review, but here's some stats to date.

What I've done is arbitrarily split the width into greater than 900 pixels and less than 900 pixels to simplify things. Perhaps I should have picked a different value.

5460 hits logged...

Screen: 1024 x 768 : 2803 (51.34%)

window width > 900 : 1822 (65.00%)
window width < 900 : 981 (35.00%)

Screen: 1280 x 1024 : 772 (14.14%)

window width > 900 : 593 (76.81%)
window width < 900 : 179 (23.19%)

Screen: 800 x 600 : 611 (11.19%)

window width < 900 : 606 (99.18%)
window width > 900 : 5 (0.82%)

You'll notice there's something "odd" here given 5 of the hits registered > 900 yet the screen reported it was only 800x600.. I'll have to investigate this.

Screen: 1280 x 800 : 488 (8.94%)

window width > 900 : 329 (67.42%)
window width < 900 : 159 (32.58%)

Screen: 1152 x 864 : 246 (4.51%)

window width > 900 : 182 (73.98%)
window width < 900 : 64 (26.02%)

I didn't calc any window info for the ones below:
Screen: 1440 x 900 : 144 (2.64%)
Screen: 1280 x 960 : 87 (1.59%)
Screen: 1680 x 1050 : 70 (1.28%)
Screen: 1280 x 768 : 62 (1.14%)
Screen: 1400 x 1050 : 46 (0.84%)
Screen: 1600 x 1200 : 22 (0.40%)
Screen: 1920 x 1200 : 20 (0.37%)

Out of all 5460 hits (and this is probably the most pertinent):

window width > 900 : 3333 (61.04%)
window width < 900 : 2127 (38.96%)

So it would appear that designing a site for 1024, it going to iritate 38%+ of the surfers since they'll have to readjust their browser in order to view it properly.

some good info, many thanks for that

Bump for the day crew.

Code:

  1024x768         3520 (46.8 &#37;)

  1280x1024         1774 (23.6 %)

  1280x800         505 (6.7 %)

  1152x864         398 (5.3 %)

  800x600         337 (4.5 %)

  1440x900         239 (3.2 %)

  1280x960         170 (2.3 %)

  1680x1050         138 (1.8 %)

  1600x1200         93 (1.2 %)

  1280x768         92 (1.2 %)

Code:

Plugins        Number

    Java         7278 (96.7 %)

    Flash         7020 (93.3 %)

    Windowsmedia         6301 (83.7 %)

    Quicktime         4551 (60.5 %)

    Pdf         4470 (59.4 %)

    Realplayer         4093 (54.4 %)

    Director         2339 (31.1 %)

for those wondering about plguins for their media...

this is on a user base that is 95.2% windows (though 30% are on FF)

Tempest, interesting numbers. I know a few people with very large screens that surfer at a reduced size because most websites aren't that wide. A bit of a chicken and the egg sort of a problem.

Based on the numbers borked put up, 90+% of all users have a display capable of showing a larger browser window. I think that using that space is starting to look like a better and better idea (getting more above the fold).

Where did you collect your number btw? Inside or outside a members area? We need to differentiate between freeloaders and paying customers as browser stats are not the same for the two groups.

And your odd stat of above 900 in width for 800x600 is explained by the fact that people can make their windows bigger than their resolution width by manually resizing them.