Week of 1/6/2002 to 1/12/2002: 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 421,877 3.70
2 800x600 4,215,344 36.99
3 1024x768 5,536,203 48.58
4 1280x1024 1,006,196 8.83
5 1600x1200 and above 215,374 1.89

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) 14,786 0.13
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 40 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 10,283 0.09
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 424,770 3.73
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 5,533,877 48.58
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 1,477,220 12.97
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 3,930,329 34.50