In some very exciting news this week it was announced that 1366 x 768 is now the most popular screen resolution on the internet, dethroning 1024 x 768 which had long been the leader. 1366 x 768 now account for 19.3% of all internet traffic while 1024 x 768 has dropped to 18.6% (1024 x 768 was up to 42% 3 years ago). This might not be the most exciting story, but its interesting to see how higher resolution screens are finally starting to take over, TechCrunch has more details.
Screens with a 1024×768 resolution are a bit like Windows XP: there have long been better options, but they still remained the most often used screens on the web. That is, until now. According to the latest data from StatCounter, 1366×768 screens just surpassed 1024×768 as the most popular screen resolution used by the visitors to StatCounter’s global network of sites. Three years ago, 1024×768 still accounted for almost 42% of all visitors to the roughly three million sites that use StatCounter. Today, that number has fallen to 18.6% and 1366×768 screens now account for 19.28%, up from just 0.68% in May 2009.