Day of 2/7/2002: Screen Resolution and Color Depth

Screen Resolution

Computers offering at least 640x480 pixels, but less than 800x600 pixels, are reported as 640x480, and so on.
# Resolution Computers %
1 640x480 14,657 2.97
2 800x600 168,417 34.14
3 1024x768 250,473 50.77
4 1280x1024 49,201 9.97
5 1600x1200 and above 10,572 2.14

Screen Depth (Number of Colors)

Note: computers reporting 16 colors may in some cases be grayscale devices. Most 16-color computers are Windows machines temporarily running in safe mode.
# Color Depth Computers %
1 Black and White (1 bit) 542 0.11
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 1 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 423 0.09
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 16,258 3.30
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 231,315 46.91
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 64,080 12.99
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 180,517 36.61