Screen Size Diversity – Sizing Up Man’s New Best Friend
By 2014, comScore predicts that web traffic on mobile devices will exceed traffic from laptop and desktop computers, and with it screen size diversity will increase drastically. At Mobify, we’re already seeing an explosion in the variety of devices accessing our customers’ websites. We analyzed the 2012 activity of 200 million shoppers on e0commerce websites powered by Mobify Cloud. What we discovered should help web designers and developers stop chasing their tails.
Global Top Ten Screen Size Diversity & Popularity
- 320 x 480 (many smartphones including iPhone) – 11.4%
- 768 x 1024(iPads and 10 inch netbooks – horizontal) – 7.3%
- 1024 x 768 – 7.8%
- 1280 x 800 (common 12 inch netbook resolution) – 19.5%
- 1280 x 1024 – 6.5%
- 1366 x 768 – 13.5%
- 1440 x 900 (common in larger laptops) – 7.3%
- 1600 x 900 – 3.8%
- 1680 x 1050 – 5.1%
- 1920 x 1080 (common for HD displays, also known as 1080p) – 6.1%
