[IxDA Discuss] browser window size stats/studies ?

[Travis Chillemi]

We are looking for the exact same answers. I stumbled upon the following
site and it seems like a promising idea. The data collected is outdated, so
we plan to implement our own approach.  It is essentially a javascript that
measures the viewable window size and writes it to a server log.  We plan to
able to measure this information and store it in a database, skipping the
log. If this script works, we may include on all of our projects until we
establish some credible numbers.

http://www.chunkysoup.net/advanced/bugged/

Of curious note: 31- 42% of users are browsing at 'full screen'.
Travis Chillemi

On 5/11/06, Jim Drew / CFM Designs <cfmdesigns at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> From: Vassili Bykov <vbykov at cincom.com>
> >
> >Adrian Howard wrote:
> >
> >>  It's also dependant on the platform. For example almost no Mac users
> >>  will have their windows set to their maximum screen resolution since
> >>  there isn't an "easy" way of doing it.
> >
> >I am a Mac user and I don't see that as the primary reason. I think the
> >main reason is the prevalence on the Mac of large displays with wide
> >aspect  ratio. For most applications, a window of size and proportion
> >equal to a typical Mac screen is simply unnecessarily wide.
>
> I'm a Mac user and neither I nor any other Mac users I know outside
> of pro photo  and design people have those extra wide screens.  I
> think they are a lot less prevalent than you might assume.  (Of
> course, in the end, what sort of users are in the set being examined
> tells the tale best.)
>
> There are two other obvious reasons I see for Mac users to not have
> full width browser windows, however.  First, anyone who uses the Dock
> on the right or the left and doesn't auto-hide it cannot use full
> width windows; they can't infringe in the Dock's space.  And second,
> the inherent nature of the Mac has the Finder as an app than can be
> brought to the front by clicking past open windows and onto the
> desktop.  Mac users in general (in my experience) are more apt to
> make use of overlapping app windows than Windows users are.  (Indeed,
> I use Windows at work and Mac at home.  At work, my browser [Firefox]
> is full width unless I need to be swapping between apps; at home, my
> browser [Safari] is almost never full width.)
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Travis Chillemi
Web Developer
1080media CITT/ATEL