Week of 2/3/2002 to 2/9/2002: 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 791,520 3.40
2 800x600 8,325,140 35.81
3 1024x768 11,508,210 49.50
4 1280x1024 2,160,430 9.29
5 1600x1200 and above 464,610 2.00

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) 28,630 0.12
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 68 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 20,496 0.09
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 822,634 3.54
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 11,138,635 47.92
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 3,016,453 12.98
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 8,215,843 35.35