Week of 12/23/2001 to 12/29/2001: 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 275,114 3.85
2 800x600 2,684,566 37.60
3 1024x768 3,432,027 48.07
4 1280x1024 615,904 8.63
5 1600x1200 and above 131,616 1.84

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) 9,354 0.13
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 26 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 6,515 0.09
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 274,750 3.85
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 3,489,639 48.90
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 924,614 12.96
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 2,431,454 34.07