What is your screen resolution?

Hi,

We are in process of re-developing our website so I was deciding for which screen resolution I should optimized my site. Our present site is optimized for 800 x 600 screen resolution but I think most of the people now having 1024 x 768 screen resolution. I want my site to be in fixed width not in percentage so it is very important decision for me.

Could you please vote for your screen resolution so that I can an idea?

Thanks,
Sonia

 

are webmasters your target audience for the site?

my revenue and traffic increased dramatically for one of my sites when i optimized the resolution for 800x600 screens.

 

I am 1024 x 768 and its been like that for a long time

 

Yes, I am going to redesign my hosting company website - http://www.realvaluehosting.com

 

Through Modern Standard! Site Must be well designed for 1024x768 my all sites! are optimized in standard

 

My screen resolution is 1280*1024..

Anyway, I always tend to optimize my sites for 1024*768 cause I don't think theres many users that has lower than that anymore.. that may be different from site to site though I guess. And it depends on what site it is, sometimes it's a must to think about the 800*600 users aswell I guess

 

I would add Google Analytics if you don't use it already as it has the capability to track the screen resolution of your visitors, like below:



Then you can see what they use As you can see, on my site (Webdesign site) nobody uses 800 x 600.

Hope this helps.

 

1280 x 1024 here

 

1400x900 for me :d widescreen 17" laptop

 

1920X1200 right now, but i frequently use 2560X1600 (hp 30 inch LCD).

But remember, resolution doesn't have much to do with websites because once you get over 1024X768 the chances are much higher that people are not using full screen for their browser. So keep that in mind. None of the stats you see can tell you that. They'll only tell you what the resolution of the monitor is.

 

I am on two monitors both at 1280 by 1024.

nickharper has the right idea. Add Google analytics to your site and see how the numbers come in.

I also use analytics to look at the type of internet connection they have. If I notice that a site I am about to redesign has lots of dial up users I will present that to the client as a reason to reduce image size.

 

I optimize my sites for the 1024 x 768 resolution, but use 1280 x 1024 myself.

 

1680 x 1050 and i love it..everything fits nicely on my 23 inch flat screen

 

Screen resolution is meaningless - how many times do I have to say it?

It doesn't matter if your software is reporting that my screen resolution is 1024x768 or 1600x1200 - if I want my browser to be 800px wide, it'll be 800px wide. Plain and simple.

You might want to read this thread on SitePoint before redesigning your site.

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=463591

 

I'm using a widescreen 19" with 1440x900. much nicer than 1280x1024 imo.

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1440x900 widescreen too!

 

1280x1024, I think this is the most common screen resolution.

 

1280 x 800, because its the native resolution for my monitor

 

Not everyone has their browser full screen. I know I don't usually, I have my screen split into 4 sections, browser taking up one of them, maybe two depending on what else i'm doing.

But thats just cause my screen is big enough that I can do that happily. Even still I know a lot of people who keep their browser at less than 800x600.

But it depends what you want to do, some people like to think if people are using 800x600 then they don't deserve to be on their site, same as people who think people using IE shouldn't be on their site. But that is a bad way to think, your cutting your potentential market down by a lot.

I'd design for at least 1024x768, if not 800x600. or just have a site that resizes as the window resizes with a min-width and min-height (although this does cause problems)

 

I am not sure if it has been said but Yahoo has already made the move to 1024 resolution. In the event someone has less than 1024 it loads their old design of 800 x 600. I would think it is safe to progress to the next width 960 for 1024 resolution.

You may want to check the w3counter stats if you are still unsure. Also check your own log records to see the most popular resolutions.