Week of 1/13/2002 to 1/19/2002: 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 505,045 3.62
2 800x600 5,108,795 36.67
3 1024x768 6,804,565 48.84
4 1280x1024 1,246,660 8.95
5 1600x1200 and above 267,281 1.92

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) 17,907 0.13
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 47 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 12,466 0.09
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 511,472 3.67
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 6,743,108 48.41
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 1,807,914 12.98
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 4,835,292 34.72