Week of 11/18/2001 to 11/24/2001: 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 24,707 4.50
2 800x600 226,194 41.18
3 1024x768 249,416 45.41
4 1280x1024 40,103 7.30
5 1600x1200 and above 8,805 1.60

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) 841 0.15
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 0 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 455 0.08
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 24,104 4.39
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 278,312 50.67
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 69,333 12.62
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 176,177 32.08