Browser Display Statistics

What is the trend in screen resolution and color depth?

Web Statistics and Trends

Statistics are important information.

W3Schools.com is for people with an interest for web technologies. This fact indicates that the numbers below might not be 100% true for the average internet users. The average internet-user might have a lower screen resolution.

Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files over many years, clearly shows the long term trends.

Screen Resolution Statistics

As of today, 99% of our visitors have a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels or higher:

Date	Other high	1920x1080	1366x768	1280x1024	1280x800	1024x768	800x600	Lower
January 2014	34%	13%	31%	8%	7%	6%	0.5%	0.5%
January 2013	36%	11%	25%	10%	8%	9%	0.5%	0.5%
January 2012	35%	8%	19%	12%	11%	13%	1%	1%
January 2011	50%	6%		15%	14%	14%	0%	1%
January 2010	39%	2%		18%	17%	20%	1%	3%
January 2009	57%					36%	4%	3%
January 2008	38%					48%	8%	6%
January 2007	26%					54%	14%	6%
January 2006	17%					57%	20%	6%
January 2005	12%					53%	30%	5%
January 2004	10%					47%	37%	6%
January 2003	6%					40%	47%	7%
January 2002	6%					34%	52%	8%
January 2001	5%					29%	55%	11%
January 2000	4%					25%	56%	15%

Color Depth Statistics

Today, most computers use 24 or 32 bits hardware to display 16,777,216 different colors.

Older computers use 16 bits display hardware, which gives a maximum of 65,536 different colors.

Very old computers use 8 bits color hardware, which gives a maximum of 256 colors.

Date	16,777,216	65,536	256
January 2014	98.5%	1%	0.5%
January 2013	98%	1.5%	0.5%
January 2012	98%	2%	0%
January 2011	97%	3%	0%
January 2010	97%	3%	0%
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%