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I was triggered by an article More People use Win98 then Vista.To find the latest stats on different trends of browsers, operating systems, screen resolution etc, I keep on visiting Browser Stats Page of W3 School. However the trends on this page are a general snap shot. It may not give me the best picture of the audience I am serving.
The w3 schools suggest that 54% of the users are using 1024×768 [till Jan 07] . The stats is too old now and more importantly it is for a general audience.
It should not be a surprise [anymore] that different audience group use very different technology. This revelation came to me once I checked the screen resolution stats a while back. The theme I designed for my personal tech oriented blogs was designed for 1024×768 pixels. And when I checked what my audience is actually using .. its a bummer. I will soon have to make sure that all my audience are getting proper readability for my theme. Here is the break down that I have for screen resolution.
- 46.00% 1280×1024
- 26.57% 1024×768
- 21.17% Unknown
- 2.59% 1152×864
- 2.59% 1600×1200
- 1.08% 800×600
While for a General Audience the stats look like
- 44.83% 1024×768
- 34.08% 1280×1024
- 13.18% Unknown
- 4.67% 800×600
- 2.23% 1152×864
- 1.01% 1600×1200
As a picture is worth a gazillion words .. here is something easier to read.
Conclusion : More tech People use higher resolution.
Also Here is what is worth looking from the tech oriented vs general audience, for browser stats.
- 85.40% Firefox 2.0.0
- 5.80% MSIE 7.0
- 4.20% Firefox 1.5.0
- 1.80% MSIE 6.0
While the trend for general audience is
- 39.00% MSIE 6.0
- 26.00% MSIE 7.0
- 23.20% Firefox 2.0.0
- 4.20% Firefox 1.5.0
- 4.40% Safari 1.2
And for those of us who read graphs better then table here is the visual.
Do I need to say what the conclusion is ?
P.S :
- Opera stats are too low and not shown.
- Tech Blog:Contents Magic
- General Blog:John Doe’s Random Bits
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1 MDub // Jul 15, 2007 at 7:00 pm
The general audience will catch up with the geeks eventually… but that might take a while.
A more interesting point to notice is that geeks… those who KNOW computers… prefer Firefox over IE.