Screen Resolutions and Amazon

[philhancox]

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Just been looking at the king of e-commerce, Amazon. I noticed that if I change my screen resolution to 800 x whatsit, it doesn't fit. It has a scrollbar at the bottom of my window and the main horizontal navigation goes off-screen.
Can I assume now that noone uses 800 resolution any more? Can I stop trying to cater my website layout for them? Does it really matter if my layout is bigger than 800 and not liquid enough to keep everything cleanly on screen?
Wondering what your opinion on screen resolution when building websites is?

[danchamp]

About 6% of visitors across my sites have screen resolutions of 800x600 or lower. If you use Google Analytics it'll give you this information in Visitors > Browser Capabilities > Screen Resolutions. One caveat though - just because a user has a high screen resolution doesn't mean they browse with a maximised browser.

Unless you have sites targetting a population which is likely to be running at lower resolutions you're probably safe optimising for 1024x768 and higher, but making sure your sites are still at least usable at 800x600.

HTH.

[D-Mac]

I've stopped worrying about 800x600. I just try sure that nothing vital is over on the right hand side.

If you're building a small site that won't really benefit from the extra width then you may as well make in fit 800.

[philhancox]

If you use Google Analytics it'll give you this information in Visitors > Browser Capabilities > Screen Resolutions.

Aye, I use Google Analytics but on several websites so just like the browser wars it always seems to differ.

HTH.

I assume that means happy to help? Ta!


I'll keep to my 800 width then methinks. It's not a bad thing but when if you use the Amazon Astore in an iframe on an 800 width page with sidebar, it's quite difficult to squeeze everything on!

[danchamp]

I assume that means happy to help? Ta!

"Hope this helps" where I come from, but the sentiment's the same.