Monitor Size Statistics for Web Design & HTML

Have you ever wondered how many 800 x 600 website viewers are still roaming the internet? More than you might think. More importantly, have you ever wondered about the monitor sizes of the viewers of your own site? The capability to discern your own user statistics (monitor sizes, and a lot more) is well within your grasp–in fact, you may already be missing it.

Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics), the ubiquitous free analytics tool offered by Google, offers this capability.

To use it, log on to your analytics account (or sign up if you don’t have one), and select the web site whose statistics you wish to examine. On the left menu, select "Visitors", and expand the "Browser Capabilities" menu entry. Then select "Screen Resolutions". Analytics will offer up a table and chart of all monitor resolutions used by your viewers.

Such a search on a client’s site yields the following (apologies for the formatting):

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Screen Resolution			Visits
1.	1024×768	383	37.73%
2.	1280×800	147	14.48%
3.	1280×1024	114	11.23%
4.	1440×900	82	8.08%
5.	1680×1050	59	5.81%
6.	1280×768	50	4.93%
7.	1920×1200	42	4.14%
8.	800×600	38	3.74%
9.	1152×864	35	3.45%
10.	1280×720	11	1.08%