Week of 1/20/2002 to 1/26/2002: 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 594,647 3.55
2 800x600 6,090,783 36.37
3 1024x768 8,218,497 49.07
4 1280x1024 1,518,595 9.07
5 1600x1200 and above 326,015 1.95

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) 21,287 0.13
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 54 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 14,894 0.09
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 606,634 3.62
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 8,079,043 48.25
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 2,173,817 12.98
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 5,847,906 34.93