Week of 11/11/2001 to 11/17/2001: 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 2,894 3.91
2 800x600 29,899 40.35
3 1024x768 33,830 45.65
4 1280x1024 6,096 8.23
5 1600x1200 and above 1,385 1.87

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) 115 0.16
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 0 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 74 0.10
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 3,402 4.59
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 36,229 48.90
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 9,999 13.50
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 24,273 32.76