Week of 1/27/2002 to 2/2/2002: 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 690,049 3.48
2 800x600 7,162,169 36.08
3 1024x768 9,783,989 49.29
4 1280x1024 1,822,969 9.18
5 1600x1200 and above 391,859 1.97

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) 24,863 0.13
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 61 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 17,571 0.09
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 710,413 3.58
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 9,543,449 48.09
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 2,575,541 12.98
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 6,973,207 35.14