Average Screen Size

...being used by PC owners

[giggle]

Hi

Does anyone have a link to somewhere that can provide the latest breakdown of what screen size people have their PC's set to?

Mine's set to 1280 and, generally, I know web pages should be designed for 800 by 600, but surely that resolution is 'old hat' now...

Cheers

Mick

[rocknbil]

I would dig around (or search) in the HTML forum, this comes up rather frequently. At least once a month. :-) If the question is posed in reference to how wide you should be designing a site, the answer is almost always design to a fluid width, using a percentage of the available viewport with a max-width property (which is not fully supported as of yet, to my knowledge, but will be someday.) Then the question itself ceases to be relevant.

If you're the static design type, yes, 600 is beginning to fade off, 800 is safe, many are going even wider.

[giggle]

Sorted, thanks RocknBil.

(also found your link to the number of times that question had been asked!)

[willybfriendly]

If you're the static design type, yes, 600 is beginning to fade off, 800 is safe, many are going even wider.

Except as handheld surfing becomes more common the screen resolution is shrinking again :(

WBF

[rocknbil]

Ack . . yes . . . then there's that . . . the more you know, the less you know . . . :-(

[supermanjnk]

I use 1280 x 1024 as my screen resolution
when I'm designing I always make sure it fits on 800 x 600, anyone using anything smaller needs to upgrade because they are using 10+ year old technology.

[jimbeetle]

anyone using anything smaller needs to upgrade because they are using 10+ year old technology

As willybfriendly mentioned: Handhelds? They're starting to make a wee bit of an impact.

[gamiziuk]

I use a tracker on my websites, which includes screen sizes as one of the stats:

1024x768 ------ 43.72%
1280x1024 ----- 35.63%
800x600 ------- 16.19%
1152x864 ------- 2.02%
Other ----------- 1.62%
1400x1050 ------ 0.40%
1600x1200 ------ 0.40%

Your mileage may vary.

[vite_rts]

how is it technically possible to track monitor settings from a website?

Are they saying that the browsers are voluntering such information to web server based software?

or are they guessing

I eally am curious cos if such tech where reliable surely it would be in wide spread usage

[gamiziuk]

If I told you, I would have to kill you.

[jimbeetle]

how is it technically possible to track monitor settings from a website?
Are they saying that the browsers are voluntering such information to web server based software?

Yeah, the resolution is easy to sniff and many stats packages report it.

[plumsauce]

The software I use sorts the resolutions into a cumulative coverage column in addition to individual coverages.

Over the last 8 months on consumer type sites, the numbers are roughly showing as:

100% design coverage @ 800 pixels wide
80% design coverage @ 1024 pixels wide

Design coverage is the number users who can see the page without scrolling sideways.

I normally publish this in a RSS feed, but haven't updated it lately.