While websites should be designed to be flexible so that visitors can view them on a wide range of devices and screen resolutions, knowledge of common web browser window sizes, widths, and heights can be used to create more usable websites. For example, important information should be positioned so that it will occur above the fold (that is, without the visitor having to scroll) on most visitors’ screens. The most useful statistics in these cases are not those relating to screen sizes, as collected by many visitor counters, but those relating to the inner size of visitors’ browsers (that is, the area within which content is displayed). Ideally, data for the target audience should be obtained, but as this is not always possible or practical the data below, which cover visitors to Safalra’s Website, are provided as a guide.
Web browser widths (in pixels)
< 200 | 0% |
|---|---|
200–399 | 0% |
400–599 | 0% |
600–799 | 4% |
800–999 | 10% |
1000–1199 | 42% |
1200–1399 | 35% |
1400–1599 | 5% |
1600–1799 | 4% |
1800–1999 | 1% |
> 1999 | 0% |
Web browser heights (in pixels)
< 100 | 0% |
|---|---|
100–199 | 0% |
200–299 | 1% |
300–399 | 2% |
400–499 | 9% |
500–599 | 27% |
600–699 | 23% |
700–799 | 12% |
800–899 | 21% |
900–999 | 3% |
1000–1099 | 1% |
> 1099 | 0% |