Browser Display Settings

2002 - 2007

The current trend is that more and more computers are using a screen size of 1024x768 pixels or more:

2007 Higher 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Unknown
January 26% 54% 14% 0% 6%
 
2006 Higher 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Unknown
July 19% 58% 17% 0% 6%
January 17% 57% 20% 0% 6%
 
2005 Higher 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Unknown
July 14% 55% 25% 0% 6%
January 12% 53% 30% 0% 5%
 
2004 Higher 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Unknown
July 10% 50% 35% 1% 4%
January 10% 47% 37% 1% 5%
 
2003 Higher 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Unknown
July 8% 43% 44% 2% 5%
January 6% 40% 47% 2% 5%
 
2002 Higher 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Unknown
October 6% 38% 49% 2% 5%

Source: http://w3schools.com

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Color Depth

2002 - 2007

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.

2007 16,777,216 65,536 256
January 86% 11% 2%
 
2006 16,777,216 65,536 256
July 85% 13% 2%
January 81% 16% 3%
 
2005 16,777,216 65,536 256
July 77% 20% 3%
January 72% 25% 3%
 
2004 16,777,216 65,536 256
July 69% 28% 3%
January 65% 31% 4%
 
2003 16,777,216 65,536 256
July 55% 40% 5%
January 51%  44% 5%
 
2002 16,777,216 65,536 256
October 49% 46% 5%

Source: http://w3schools.com

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