Week of 12/9/2001 to 12/15/2001: 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 153,377 4.09
2 800x600 1,447,688 38.63
3 1024x768 1,771,105 47.26
4 1280x1024 309,726 8.26
5 1600x1200 and above 65,993 1.76

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) 5,025 0.13
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 12 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 3,336 0.09
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 149,609 3.99
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 1,851,144 49.41
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 482,390 12.88
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 1,255,013 33.50