Site that displays averages of surfers' technical specs?

[Mike Schmidt]

Is there anyplace on the web that displays information on what proportion of
web surfers use what type of screen resolution, what type of browser, etc.?

I'm pretty sure I came across such a site a few years ago by accident.

Thanks!

[Pablo]

These stats are often misleading, don't count on them.

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> Is there anyplace on the web that displays information on what proportion

of

> web surfers use what type of screen resolution, what type of browser,

etc.?

>
> I'm pretty sure I came across such a site a few years ago by accident.
>
> Thanks!
>
>

[darrel]

> Is there anyplace on the web that displays information on what proportion
of

> web surfers use what type of screen resolution, what type of browser,

etc.?

Yes, but they are pretty much useless. All that matters is who visits your
site. And while browser use is important, there are always going to be a
wide range of browsers out there.

Also, screen resolution isn't really a variable you need to be concerned
with. In terms of viewable area, you need to watch for the browser viewport
size.

Anyways, google should turn up plenty for you. Here are a few:

[url]http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp[/url]
[url]http://www.webreference.com/stats/browser.html[/url]



-Darrel

[Travis]

Here is one more for you

[url]http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm[/url]

Travis

Mike Schmidt wrote:

> Is there anyplace on the web that displays information on what proportion of
> web surfers use what type of screen resolution, what type of browser, etc.?
>
> I'm pretty sure I came across such a site a few years ago by accident.
>
> Thanks!
>
>

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(Mike Schmidt)

>Is there anyplace on the web that displays information on what proportion of
>web surfers use what type of [...]

Many, and they are all pretty useless and inaccurate. If you want some
usable informations have a look at your own site's logfiles.

>screen resolution,

Screen resolution says nothing about the size of the browser's viewport,
i.e. the visible area that can be used for the website's display.
Additionally to get this information Javascript is required on the
client.

>what type of browser, etc.?

Easy to fake. Many browsers identify themselves as IE (Opera for example
did this by default in older versions), because there are still too many
stupid browser switches out there on many websites, that ignore browsers
other than IE or NN. Faking the browser ID is a way to get around them.

Micha