Comments on: Does size matter?

By: IT Blog

IT Blog — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:30:26 +0000

Browser Wars

Nach dem Relaunch unserer amerikanischen Website mit Typo3 haben wir praktischerweise Auswertungen der Besuche mit AWStats.

Hier eine bersicht der Browser und Betriebsystem Kennungen (Auszug):

MSIE……….85,8%
- 6.0….81,3%
- 5.5…..3,3%
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By: Dale Estes

Dale Estes — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:55:44 +0000

Since I don’t get any traffic to my blog size doesn’t matter

By: DebWire’s Blog » The 800×600 Debate

DebWire’s Blog » The 800×600 Debate — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:07:15 +0000

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By: NightWriter

NightWriter — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:22:10 +0000

For my current site, only about 15% use 800 x 600 resolution. With my new site, I have tried to work it so it views well in as many different resolutions as possible. Basically, you can resize the window and the bits will shuffle about to fit the size of the window. Everything works fine except for one block of adsense ads that just get partially hidden by the rest. I’m sure viewers will not mind not being able to see all of an advert, though for professionalism, I would prefer the adsense block to adjust itself along with the rest of it.

By: Michael Raichelson

Michael Raichelson — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:49:39 +0000

TheCounter.com opens up (some of) the stats they collect for their users for public so you can get a bit of information on browsers and screen resolutions. According to their stats from last month about 56% of people using sites with their counter code on it are at 1024×768 (http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2005/May/res.php), with 28% still at 800×600. I personally still count that as a large enough number to keep everything under 770px still, but that could just be me.

By: Vic

Vic — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:38:35 +0000

You can always use fixed width’s for the one or two side columns and make the main column expandable. Design it for 780 wide, but that way visitors with higher res won’t get annoyed at only a small part of the screen being used.

Vic

By: eckes

eckes — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:57:20 +0000

Denise: which Resulution do you run on the 14inch Display? Personally I dont think that 800×600 is useable for anything (besides you wont even geht displays with that resulution). Bernd

By: Denise O'Berry

Denise O'Berry — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:51:16 +0000

Thank you for writing about this topic. I have a 19 inch monitor on my main PC and only a 14 inch on my laptop. It is absolutely frustrating as a user when I visit a site and have to scroll left to right to read the page. It wastes my time and effort — and gives me a headache! Often I’ll leave sooner than I would have…

By: Peter 'B0rG' Sinior

Peter 'B0rG' Sinior — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:27:28 +0000

Hi, i’d like to drop a few stats from my site (monthly average 65k unique visitors):

1024×768 – 72,33%
800×600 – 16,07%
1280×1024 – 10,84%
1600×1200 – 0,55%
Other – 0,21%

Since now 800×600 is a (minimal) web standard it is wise to design websites (if constand width) at maximum of 780px (800px – 20px for a standard scrollbar width).

Cheers, have a nice day.

By: eckes

eckes — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 04:45:33 +0000

Here are mine on a geekish (Linux) Blog (eckes.org):

1024×768 2734
1280×1024 1419
800×600 344
1152×864 260
1400×1050 231
1600×1200 178
1280×800 105
1280×960 78
1680×1050 38
1344×840 32

and the following on a IT-related german blog (itblog.eckenfels.net):

1280×1024 273
1024×768 244
1400×1050 115
1600×1200 62
1152×864 33
1280×800 17
1680×1050 13
800×600 11
1280×854 9
1920×1200 6

the numbers are visits, with the following color depths:

32 Bit 594
24 Bit 111
16 Bit 95
8 Bit 2
15 Bit 1

By: Smart Money

Smart Money — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 03:46:16 +0000

A friend told me he looked at my site on his computer at work and it looked like crap [it was 800x600]. My response was something like…”if they want to be so far behind the times with their monitor, it’s not my problem.”

Then, since I’m supposed to be blogging about business, I realized this wasn’t the greatest attitude, I hooked up a better stats program…and I was shocked to see the %. I would have guessed less than 5%. Needless to say I fixed my site.

By: Ryan Latham

Ryan Latham — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 03:43:54 +0000

It may just be the visitors I attract but only 3% of them are 800 x 600 wheras 82% of them are 1024×768. The rest would be resolutions such as 1280×1024, 1600×1200 and so on. I do not have a percentile for 640×4(get some glasses)80.

I think this may be universal as some of my topics do varry quite a bit. Typically I design for 800×600 as a cutoff. 800×600 give you enough room to work, and whitespace doesn’t kill.

By: duncan

duncan — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 03:19:22 +0000

amazing stats on the 800×600 Smart Money

By: Smart Money

Smart Money — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 03:12:38 +0000

Here’s the stats for the last 100 visitors to my site [this is a bit unusual, average is about 28% 800x600]:

48 800×600
40 1024×768
9 1280×1024
1 1152×864
1 1600×1200
1 unknown

so if I was neglecting 800×600, I’d be losing a pretty large number.

By: Vix

Vix — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 02:54:11 +0000

I design for 800×600 though I think that 640×480 resolutions are a dying trend.

The best way to make sure that your site renders well in various types of resolutions would be fluid design but like you say dealing with percentages with CSS sometimes is a headache.

I know I’m guilty of using fixed width layouts (with absolute positioning).