[Typo3] site dimensions - best resolution

[Christopher]

On 20/10/05, Bernhard Kraft <kraftb at kraftb.at> wrote:
> Christopher wrote:
>
> >
> > I would quarrel with this as a blanket statement since it depends
> > largely on the market served by the site. Have a look at w3schools'
> > browser resolution stats [1] -- it's a tech-themed site, so you might
> > expect that a larger than average number of visitors are using larger
> > monitors. But even so, they still report 25-30% of users browsing at
> > 800 x 600 this year. This is a minority to be sure, but too big a
> > minority to just ignore as far as I'm concerned.
> >
>
> I think w3schools statistics are not directly related to the people who
> view your pages. You should try to install an application like webalizer
> or awstats which shows what resolution YOUR visitors have.
>
> w3school counts also 3rd world people accessing the internet who have cheaper
> hardware ... if your main customers are from europe or us you should consider
> a more specific statistic ....

Yep -- as I mentioned two or three times in the same post ;-)

w3schools was just a good example of a high-traffic site that still
sees a very significant chunk of traffic using the 800x600 resolution.
Simple geography is not necessarily a good indicator either; we see
many 800x600 users on sites serving groups of affluent users who just
are not that tech-oriented...

-Christopher