The majority of web surfers use 1024×768

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The screen resolution 800 x 600 pixels has signficantly decreased since July 2005. More and more internet users choose for screen resolution 1024 x 768 or higher. The finding has important implications for web site designers because most web sites are designed for a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. 1280×1024 is #2 in the world.

According to my stats, most of the visitors here are also on 1024×768. Actually, I think it’s good news because I don’t think my current 3 column theme would display well on resolutions of 800×600 or below.

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Posted on June 26th, 2006 | Category: Internet, Web Design |

7 responses so far,

1. 1

   Thilak

   June 26, 2006 at 6:34 pm

   Yes Dude !! Even I noticed this on my stats.

2. 2

   johntp

   June 26, 2006 at 6:40 pm

   I think this is great news. But it also means that Web Designers may have to redesign their sites to make them display well on 1024×767 as they may have given importance to 800×600.

3. 3

   Veron

   June 27, 2006 at 12:56 pm

   Wonderful! For all my previous layouts I built each one to fit the 800×600 screen. It greatly limited the scope of my design and got real frustrating for a while. But for my latest site revamp I threw caution to the wind and designed it according to the 1024×768 screen. It looks a lot better now, both readability and aesthetics wise.

   Oh yeah my site visitors are largely 1024×768 screen users too!

4. 4

   Jason Drohn

   July 17, 2006 at 3:59 am

   This is great information. Quite a few of my sites have the same characteristics, people going to the higher resolutions. The good news is it places a lot more content ‘above the fold’ which is prime real estate in a browser.

5. 5

   John T P

   July 17, 2006 at 4:34 am

   Pretty soon people will go for even more higher resolutions

6. 6

   Nipon

   July 24, 2006 at 3:42 pm

   Many users in India still use 800×600. Some cyber cafes with old machines have that only

7. 7

   Alistair Macneil

   August 1, 2006 at 3:27 am

   I’m also throwing off the 800 x 600 rule now as my analytics show