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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 figures 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 ten years, clearly shows the long term trends.

Screen Resolution

Today, most visitors are using a screen resolution higher than 1024x768 pixels:

Date	Higher	1024x768	800x600	640x480	Other
January 2012	85%	13%	1%	0%	1%
January 2011	85%	14%	0%	0%	1%
January 2010	76%	20%	1%	0%	3%
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 often 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 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%

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