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What we can assume based on the current statistics is that at least 94% 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 color depth settings of 16 bits (65,000 colors) or greater.
Operating System |
Browser |
Resolution |
Color Depth |
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| Windows XP | 51% | Internet Explorer 6 | 77% | 1024 x 768 | 47% | 32bit (max) | 59% |
| Windows 2000 | 20% | Internet Explorer 5 | 16% | 800 x 600 | 37% | 16bit (65K) | 32% |
| Windows 98/ME | 18% | Mozilla | 3% | 1280 x 1024 | 7% | 24 bit (16 M) | 6% |
| Windows NT | 2% | Netscape 7 | 1.4% | 1152 x 864 | 3% | 8 bit (256) | 1% |
| Windows 95 | .3% | Netscape 3 & 4 | .6% | 640 x 480 | 1% | Unknown | 2% |
| Macintosh | 3% | Opera/Other | 2% | Other/Unknown | 5% | ||
| Linux/Other | 3% | Internet User Statistics as reported by The Counter & W3 Schools | |||||
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 6% of 1,000 could make for 60 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.
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