Tracking Screen resolutions 1

[Bravogolf]

Is there something available that allows me to record the resolutions of my visitors on eye-floaters.com?

I want to make the site a fixed width (so I can format the content more reliably) and am not sure whether it's worth making it 800 pixels wide (for the 800 * 600 res.) anymore?

 

[vongrunt]

Yes, with few lines of javascript (screen object) and either cookie or callback request after page loads. If javascript is turned off, then AFAIK - no.

Also: w3schools have some stats you may found interesting.

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[Bravogolf]

Those stats are very interesting, thank you very much.

I guess I'll go with 800 * 600 then

 

[ChrisHunt]

Register your site (free) at

http://www.statcounter.com

, and you'll find screen resolution is one of the things it stores. I'm still getting anything up to 10% of visitors with 800x600.

Remember that you need to allow for the width of the scroll bar and other chrome - so a page designed for 800x600 shouldn't be wider than, say, 780 pixels.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[jstreich]

Absolute positioning is evil.
1.) If I have a low screen res, even if I am a minority (which I don't), then I have to scroll both horizonally and vertically, and I don't come back.
2.) If I do have your magic number (which I don't), then I have to be surfing with the window maximized to enjoy the content of your site. If I want to have 3 wondows open and activly watching them (like my Tv card output or an IM program along one of the edges) them I end up with horizontal and vertial scroll, and I don't come back.
3.) If I have a screen resolution a lot higher than your magic number (mine is 2048x768) then there is a lot of "dead space" that isn't being used. I become annoyed, and possibly don't come back to the site.

Keep in mind the other "silver" that might be gobbling desktop realty, like the menu and task bar (on any of the four sides), a "slim" mp3 player program, an IM program latched to one of the two sides (don't thing any go hoizontal), news tickers (typcially horizontal) and any other oddity. Then again, if a sites sizes annoys me I just override it's CSS (gotta love the CSS extention for fire-fox).

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