krieves - 8:14 pm on Jan 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

This is a topic I've been watching for the past few years. When my company site was launched in 1999, most viewers were equally split between 640x480 and 800x600. There were a few others, but 90% where at these resolutions. Watching my stats every month, I started seeing resolutions change so that the majority of the people were are 800x600. Then 1024x760 starting getting more popular. After accumulating a few months of data, I extrapolated that 1024x768 and 800x600 would be equal in June of 2003. I missed it by a month, it was July.

Now I'm seeing 1024x768 pull ahead of all other resolutions. Eventually, I think 1024x768 is going to be the defacto minimum resolution. However, I don't see it happening until 2007.

I think that this trend has been accelerated by 1)proliferation of laptops (many have this as the default resolution) and 2) the decrease in costs of 17/19 inch LCD monitors.