[WEB4LIB] Re: New search engine under development

[John Creech]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Freeman, Brook J. wrote:

> It appears to be designed for 1024x768.  This is not huge.  While
> 800x600 is still the most commonly designed for size, doing a quick web
> search the most recent data I found was from 2001, from that data
> 1024x768 was the normal web browsing resolution for 33%, 800x600 52%
> with most of the rest taken up by higher resolutions.  This was three
> years ago, I'm sure the numbers have sifted up significantly since then.
> I expect that more and more sites will be designed for 1024.

The following site:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

claims for July 2004 that 1024 X 768 is at 50% and 800 X 600 = 35%.

And http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat_trends.htm

shows "800x600: this accounts for ~37% of page accesses," and "1024x768 
and higher: this accounts for ~60% of page accesses."

I know nothing about these sites but it seems that resolutions are 
trending higher, fwiw.

John Creech, Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian
Brooks Library, Central Washington University