Week of 2/10/2002 to 2/16/2002: 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 867,629 3.36
2 800x600 9,208,487 35.62
3 1024x768 12,830,967 49.64
4 1280x1024 2,421,307 9.37
5 1600x1200 and above 520,560 2.01

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) 31,505 0.12
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 73 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 22,685 0.09
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 907,830 3.51
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 12,353,149 47.80
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 3,354,058 12.98
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 9,171,476 35.49