By bloid
via geekzilla.co.uk
Published: Jul 26 2007 / 11:53
With high resolution screens becoming increasingly cheaper to buy, what screen size should we really be building websites for? I took some stats from GeekZilla (in google analytics) and was pleased to find that the most popular was reasonable and that the horror which is 800x600 came in eleventh and only held 1.03% of the total.
Comments
jdave replied ago:
Once again another 'screen resolution' article that misses the point. Or maybe two points. In no particular order, the results should be ordered for "X resolution or over", harder to quantify now with widescreen included, but this is how you find the minimum target. Also, and possibly more importantly, resolution statistics depend heavily on the type of audience, for example technical sites are useless for determining resolutions of common users as we tend to have higher resolutions.
ilazarte replied ago:
the real answer: 1024x768 being aware the 1280x1024 is coming in.
also be concious that the latest wave of computers and screens are widescreenish since consumer electronics are favoring them for purposes of space and things like viewing dvds.
Jeff Hill replied ago:
Misleading article - for the easily misled I suppose. Not even an article as much as a sentence and stats from a geek site. Skewed by nature. Just farm your own stats if you really want to know.
whartung replied ago:
There was another more interesting article recently, http://www.softwareprojects.com/resources/building-content/t-make-money-thin-websites-sell-more-1340.html .
This discusses conversion rate of websites, and finds that 800x600 sites apparently have an affect on product sales.
So, I guess there's popular screen sizes, and then there's profitable screen sizes.
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