Browser Display Statistics
What is the trend in browser usage, display colors and
screen resolution?
Web Statistics and Trends
Statistics are important information. What you can read from the statistics
below is that most users are
using a display with 1024x768
pixels or more, with a color depth of at least 65K colors.
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies.
This fact indicates that the figures below might not be 100% realistic.
The average user might have display screens with a lower resolution.
Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files over almost ten years, clearly shows the long
and medium-term trends.
Display Resolution
The current trend is that most computers are using a screen size of
1024x768 pixels or more:
| Date |
Higher |
1024x768 |
800x600 |
640x480 |
Unknown |
| January 2009 |
57% |
36% |
4% |
0% |
3% |
| January 2008 |
38% |
48% |
8% |
0% |
6% |
| January 2007 |
26% |
54% |
14% |
0% |
6% |
| January 2006 |
17% |
57% |
20% |
0% |
6% |
| January 2005 |
12% |
53% |
30% |
0% |
5% |
| January 2004 |
10% |
47% |
37% |
1% |
5% |
| January 2003 |
6% |
40% |
47% |
2% |
5% |
| January 2002 |
6% |
34% |
52% |
3% |
5% |
| January 2001 |
5% |
29% |
55% |
6% |
5% |
| January 2000 |
4% |
25% |
56% |
11% |
4% |
Color Depth
The current trend is that most computers use 24 or 32 bits hardware to
display 16,777,216 different colors.
Older computers and laptops often use 16 bits display hardware. This gives a maximum of 65,536 different colors.
Handheld computers (and very old computers) often use 8 bits color
hardware. This gives a maximum of 256 colors.
| Date |
16,777,216 |
65,536 |
256 |
| January 2009 |
95% |
4% |
1% |
| January 2008 |
90% |
8% |
2% |
| January 2007 |
86% |
11% |
2% |
| January 2006 |
81% |
16% |
3% |
| January 2005 |
72% |
25% |
3% |
| January 2004 |
65% |
31% |
4% |
| January 2003 |
51% |
44% |
5% |
| January 2002 |
43% |
50% |
7% |
| January 2001 |
37% |
55% |
8% |
| January 2000 |
34% |
54% |
12% |
Read more about the display of colors
Other Statistics
Browser usage statistics
Operating system statistics
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