Internet User Statistics
as of
What we can assume based on the current statistics
is that approximately 85% of Internet Surfers own Windows platform PC's,
use Internet Explorer to look at web sites, have monitor screen
resolution settings of 800 x 600 or greater and view color depth settings
of 16 bits (65,000 colors) or greater.
Operating System
|
Browser
|
Resolution
|
Color Depth
|
| Windows XP |
59% |
Internet Explorer 6 |
77% |
1024 x 768 |
51% |
32bit (max) |
60% |
| Windows 2000 |
25% |
Internet Explorer 5 |
7% |
800 x 600 |
34% |
16bit (65K) |
33% |
| Windows 98/ME |
8% |
Mozilla/Firefox |
12% |
1280 x 1024 |
7% |
24 bit (16 M) |
4% |
| Windows NT/95 |
1.8% |
Netscape 7 |
1.7% |
1152 x 864 |
3% |
8 bit (256) |
1% |
| Macintosh |
3% |
Netscape 3 & 4 |
.3% |
640 x 480 |
1% |
Unknown |
2% |
| Linux/Other |
3% |
Opera/Other |
2% |
Other/Unknown |
4% |
|
|
| Statistics averaged from The
Counter, W3
Schools & other user tracking sites |
Why is this important?
At Kestrel Designs, we keep track of the most current
information about typical Internet Surfers as it helps us to create
a web site for your that is optimized for the majority user. We
know, however, that your mother still uses AOL 4.0 on her iMac and
that your favorite client has a 6-year-old laptop and that 15% of
1,000 could make for 150 potentially unhappy customers, so we make
adjustments to your final site design in order to ensure their user
experience of your site is a positive one as well.
Did you know: different
browsers on different operating systems display web sites differently!
(See our Browser Wars Article for
more information.)
FYI: AOL uses
Internet Explorer by default and CompuServe comes with Netscape
Navigator.
Where to next?
I want to learn more about: Browser Wars
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