Modern Life - Comments on 'Screen Resolutions and Aspect Ratios Worldwide'

Adam Griffiths wrote:

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:38:34 +0000

IE is definitely a pile of 'what you should be sticking in the bin' :-P

Its nice to see an insight of screen resolutions for other visitors of ML. I'm running 1680x1050px and always have all windows maximized...so I can concentrate on the website instead of being distracted by my pretty desktop picture.

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Stuart wrote:

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:05:35 +0000

Damn technology. I'm blaming IE and the lack of decent SVG support.

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Jakob S wrote:

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:53:24 +0000

I just wish I could design those :P

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Stuart wrote:

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:15:29 +0000

@Jakob - I'd agree screen resolution isn't a great measure for design - my native screen res is 2560x1600, and I wouldn't dream of running a maximised window. At the lower end - 800x600, 1024x768 etc, it's probably more of a consideration.

Whilst there's no concrete link between actual browser size and screen size, it's likely there'll be some correlation. I just wish we could all produce 100% fluid, 100% scalable designs :-)

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Jakob S wrote:

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:06:45 +0000

Interesting and well analyzed findings, thumbs up. Their usefulness in deciding anything in regards to web design, however, is debatable.

The screen resolution might give a nice upper boundary for how big a browser can grow, but the reality is that the browser window can be - and often is - smaller than all available screen real estate. And the content viewport area, which is really what we should be designing for, is even smaller than the browser window.

See http://www.baekdal.com/reports/actual-browser-sizes/ and http://mentalized.net/journal/2006/10/24/browser_size_does_matter_actual_numbers/ for more information and references.

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Md Mudassir Alam wrote:

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:10:22 +0000

A Well researched piece, i liked it and also get valuable information about sreen resolutions worldwide. Well done, good job man

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Adam Darowski wrote:

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:54:36 +0000

Oh, man... I missed these gorgeous charts. Welcome back, Stuart. :)

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Vyoma wrote:

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:21:49 +0000

Ah - finally you are back from your 'sabbatical'.

This was an interesting study and definitely helps in deciding the screen resolution to aim for when designing webpages. :)

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Stuart wrote:

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:20:43 +0000

@Jaffer - Been busy and short on ideas for content, so I took a couple of months sabbatical to refresh and to come up with new ideas for posts :)

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Jaffer wrote:

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:00:03 +0000

Hi Stuart !
Love your blog ! Been a long time reader too !

Couldn't happen to notice why you've slowed down drastically in the past few months !

Best Regards !

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Pete wrote:

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:55:10 +0000

Ah yes. I realised that you already said that after I posted my comment :)
In my defence I was skim reading while meant to be working on a dull form.

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Stuart wrote:

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:40:38 +0000

@Pete - you missed the methodology? :) It's data from my own stats (so expect a strong bias towards tech and design - and an elevation in average resolution), running from May 2006 to November 2007 (i.e. now) - 18 months of data, covering about 1.1 million visits.

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Pete wrote:

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:36:08 +0000

I think you just went of the geek scale :)

I'll join you there though as I found this to be extremely interesting reading.
It is particulary interesting to consider that the region with the lowest average resolution is still a touch over 1024x768.
What was the size of your data pool for working out these stats?

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