Quick Poll, What resolution do you browse the web at?

Quick poll

[Clark]

I use 1024 x 768.
How about you?

Am I right to assume that most people use 800 x 600? Is that your experience?

[Jimmie]

800X600

[Go60Guy]

"Geeky Type"! Has my entire life come down to that?:o

[dcheney]

1280x1024
Opera window around 900x900

[Clark]

Nice to see some more responses at this time. I thought during the google update the only thread that people are allowed to post on is the google update thread? ;)

[victor]

1024x768

But, as with several other replies, I don't run a browsers full screen; and even if I did, I'd have to subtract the space taken by menus and status bars and other stuff.

So the actual window for a website usually maxes at about 700x500.

I tend to set Opera's View/Zoom to 80%

[andreasfriedrich]

SubSection "Display" 
  Depth  24 
  Modes  "1024x768" "800x600" 
EndSubSection

Quoting from your XF86Config file is really geeky, dingman ;)

Andreas

[werty]

1024 x 768(work and home)

results from one of my sites:
800x600 64275 44.57%
1024x768 56766 39.36%
1152x864 13207 9.15%
1280x1024 6444 4.46%
640x480 1785 1.23%
Other 1328 0.92%
1600x1200 396 0.27%

[littleman]

1280x1024

[amznVibe]

I've been using 1280x1024 for the past few months, used to be 1024x768

but unless you were looking for more of a power users' feedback reports like these sites have will give you much more information for many more thousands of general visitors (some very current too)

[thecounter.com...]
[upsdell.com...]
[echoecho.com...]
[nua.ie...]
[acnielsen.ca...]

[Duckula]

Probably more of a readability issue than anything else.

The real problem here is the eye travel distance. With a wide browser the eye travels longer (relative) distances, the shape of the paragraph turns too flat and is hard to follow. And if the content were adapted to make those <p> more evenly dimensioned then the amount of information per block would be too much, defeating the purpose of paragraphing.

[ukgimp]

1024 and 19"

[glengara]

800x600, eyesight isn't what it used to be.

[DaveN]

surfing @ 1600 * 1200 on 19" tft and 15" laptop

design on 1280 x 1024 on a 22' iiyama (anything less than 1280x1024 and the start button becomes the size of a mini mars bar)

design to 800 x 600 / 1024x768
DaveN

[cwebb]

1024x768 53
800x600 26
1280x1024 3
1152x864 2
1400x1050 2
1600x1200 1

quite some 800x600, but remember the browser itself takes away different amounts of pixels, more if you use more toolbars and stuff!

[Edouard_H]

800 x 600 for the same reason as glengara - except when checking design.

[ritch_b]

1024 x 768 & 800 x 600 for Win 2k and RedHat respectively - I'd fear for my eyesight if I were to run at any higher than 1024 x 768!

The majority of my visitors seem to use 800 x 600, but that number is dropping progressively. A big monitor won't necessarily mean that the user is running their browser maximised though...

R.

[Clark]

So it looks like I'm in good company designing with the 800 x 600 user in mind, making sure that there is no horiz scrolling.

Mostly pay attention to I.E. and once in a while check Netscape...

[wingslevel]

21" 1600x1200 so I can have to 800 wide pages up at once...

[4serendipity]

I browse at 1280x1024, but rarely maximize any one window