screen resolution

Screen width and design

[swa66]

Seeing iphone and other phone score higher than expected in my visitor's OS choices, I took a look at screen size as collected by Google analytics (note this isn't viewport size unfortunately, it's screen size.

Looking at width (in visits):

 240x*: <0.2%
 320x*:  1%
 480x*: <0.2%
 640x*: <0.2%
 800x*:  4%
1024x*: 35% 
1152x*:  3%
1280x*: 38%
1344x*: <0.2%
1360x*: <0.2%
1366x*: <1%
1400x*: <1%
1440x*:  9%
1600x*: <1%
1680x*:  5%
1920x*:  2%
2560x*:  0.1%

Not showing those with <0.1% of my visits, otherwise you get many more rather rare resolutions. Those rare resolutions is probably people pushing their graphics card or monitor to the very maximum.

One even reported a 5120px wide screen, I'll presume it's a multi-monitor setup..
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The site works better than I ever expected on an iPhone (don't have one, but tested it in an apple store abroad), but really should not work all that well for viewports significantly narrower than 800px.

Anybody seeing similar things or radically different stuff ?

All in all I think I'll continue to go for 800px wide as a goal, some margin up to 1280 doesn't hurt that much and small: well it's hard to fit anything, if the browsers live up to what the iPhone can do then it'll work for them too and the other phones are just too low and difficult to try to support them now.

[simonuk]

I don't have an iphone either but when I tested all my sites nothing broke because it just seems to scale down the original. I'm not sure what engine it uses but everything works well (Must be FF or Opera if it works hehe).

I went through a couple of my carts and the whole preocess was simple. I can see why people like them :-)

Personally? with 800x around 0.4% on most of my sites all my set widths are at 960px and the iphone didn't have a horizontal scroll bar so I'm happy.