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What Lastest Trends Should Be Use By Designers And Developers For Best Viewing Experience Of Any Website?
Every web developer or web designer wants to have their website to give users the same best experience no matter what the users screen size/resolution/operating system/browser is, but let’s face the fact, screen size/resolution/operating system/browser does effect website experience.
I get asked the question often, especially by web developers and designers, what is the most common type of screen size/resolution/operating system/browser. Well, to identify this we started capturing data on screen size/resolution/operating system/browser for people who visited our SmashingApps.com. This is what we found
Screen Resolution Statistics
We found in the above graph that now a days most common screen resolution used by the visitor is 1280×1024 while 1024×768 is on 2nd number and 1280×800 is on the 3rd for SmashingApps.
Browser Statistics
We found in the above browser statistics graph that now a days most common browser used by the visitor is Mozilla Firefox while Microsoft Internet Explorer is on 2nd number and Safari is on the 3rd for SmashingApps.
Operating System Statistics
We found in the above operating system statistics graph that most common OS used by the visitor is Microsoft Windows while Machintosh is on 2nd number and Linux is on the 3rd for SmashingApps.
Browser and Operating System Combination Statistics
We found in the above browser and operating system combination statistics graph that most common browser and operating system combination used by the visitor is Firefox with Microsoft Windows while Internet Explorer with Windows is on 2nd number and Firefox with Machintosh is on the 3rd for SmashingApps.
Summary
By analyzing all of the above graph, designer or developer find a latest trends and combination of website visitors browsing experience. This way its easy to make sure that websites are giving best experience to the visitors and the real message and design what you are presenting!
I think all the above factors are very important to consider in every new or exisiting website. I believe that the best viewing experience of website helps the person to navigate and enjoy. It also helps to give a good impression on visitors mind.
So check now, whether your website gives the real viewing experience to the viewers or you will need to optimize your website with the current trends of viewing experience. To check where your visitors come from, how they Interact with your site and what are the current viewing experience, track with Google Analytics for free!
It would be great if you will share your experiences with us about best viewing experience.
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Comments
about browers,i think it is not quite accurate,maybe it is based on your site.Much more common people dont use firefox as their default brower,they may use IE generally。
While I appreciate your attempt to capture statistics and share them, these numbers are insanely skewed. When was the last time a near-sighted 50-something was perusing the archives at SmashingApps? Do we think he/she would have their browser set to 1280 x 1024?
These are the kind of misleading stats that designers latch onto and cite as relevant when designing for ANY audience rather than understanding THEIR audience and their needs.
I think it’s safe to say that while these numbers are informative for a tech/design-heavy site geared towards 20- and 30-something designers and developers, they are by no means indicative of the entire landscape of users.
That said, thanks for publishing anyway : )
This helps designers to find out the trend of their website visitors easily and make his/her website give a best viewing experience by using stats for their website.
Doug, Exactly.
To claim these are valid stats for the entire Internet is ridiculously misleading.
Since when did Firefox have over 50% market share?
I’d also be willing to bet 1024×768 is a much more popular screen resolution.
I’m a Mac user, but 18% of the market? Come on…
You would have completely saved yourself here if you didn’t imply these statistics applied to the entire Internet.
You may have even gotten away with saying these relate to Technology websites–that I may believe.
But the entire Internet? Wrong, just wrong.
Being a website aimed primarily at developers, I assume a big chunk of SmashingApps traffic comes from, e.g., StumbleUpon, where most of the people are using Firefox because of the toolbar, which is not available for IE6.
Obviously, developers have to target their own audience, but numbers like these are always interesting in getting some idea of how your audience compares with the rest of the web.
I work on a website for a school district, and our audience seems to be at the opposite end of the spectrum from yours. In the interest of sharing (rather than ranting), here are some of our GA stats from February 2008: (representing about 350k visits on just our front page)
Screen Resolution:
800×600 - 63.5% (this is the initial setting in the standard disk image)
1024×768 - 24.81%
1280×800 - 4.18%
1280×1024 - 2.97%
Browser:
IE - 97.3%
- IE6 - 86.93% (this is the only browser in the standard disk image)
- IE7 - 13.03%
Firefox - 1.9%
Safari - 0.68%
Flash versions:
9.0 - 96.64%
9.0 r115, r47, r28, r45, r16 - 2.5%~
As hard as I push for us not to incorporate Flash anywhere we don’t have to, the statistics really are against me. Also, we have to push the tech people to make changes to the standard image. (One of them literally told me that at this point, browsers like IE7 and Firefox 2 are pretty much the same.)
For the people claiming ‘insanely skewed statistics’! You have to read to the end of the post!
The point of the post is to use an anlytics program to determine what your readers are using and then tailor your site to your readers.
The post may be guilty of an incomplete opening paragraph, but it doesn’t seem it ever tried to imply that everyone should use these sample statistics.
It would be more accurate to design off of the Window Width, not the screen resolution.
It’s a poor assumption to assume that everybody will automatically adjust their browser to the full-screen width. Most users do not browse at full screen.