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Viewable Area Test
I’m curious to the relationship between screen resolution and actual viewable browser area (see this post). I need your help.
I wrote a quick page that will print out the two for you (it should work, anyway — I wrote it in 30 seconds and tested it for about that long). This page will tell you:
- Your screen resolution.
- The viewable area of the browser window you load the page into.
(Note: IE under XP SP2 may complain about “active content” or some such garbage. If you trust me, just “Allow blocked content…” If you don’t trust me, then I’m hurt, I really am.)
So go to this page, copy the results out of the textbox, and paste them into a comment on this entry. If you feel ambitious, perhaps let us know what “viewable area intrusions” you have running (bookmarks toolbar, CSS toolbar, just don’t run the browser fullscreen, etc.).
One more time, here’s the link.
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Viewable Area Stats
I've compiled the reported stats from our screen resolution vs. viewable area post. Here are the details: People reporting 1024 x 768 resolution (8 people) had an average, actual viewing area of 964 x 566. 1280 x 1024 resolution (33 people) averaged 1120 x 796. 1600 x 1200 resolution (3 people) averaged…
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I'm using a new stat tracking app called Mint. It has a plug-in called "User Agent 007" (ho, ho -- what wit) that captures browser stats. Interesting stats: almost 90% of Gadgetopia visitors are at 1024 x 768 or greater almost 20% of visitors are at higher resolution than 1024…
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I'll start:
Screen: 1024 x 768
Viewing Area: 786 x 524
Using the bookmarks sidebar in Firefox.
Screen: 1024 x 768
Viewing Area: 1024 x 606
Firefox with Navigation and Bookmarks Toolbars and the Windows XP task bar across the bottom
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 920 x 775
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 901 x 785
Firefox with Sage RSS panel open.
Screen: 1152 x 864
Viewing Area: 1000 x 493
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1053 x 897
Firefox w/ Sage RSS viewer sidebar
Screen: 1280 x 1024 Viewing Area: 847 x 821
Opera w/ sidebar
Screen: 1600 x 1200
Viewing Area: 1209 x 1005
IE 6
Screen: 1024 x 768
Viewing Area: 956 x 525
Firefox on Fedora Core 3, Gkrellm on the right, gnome panels top and bottom.
Screen: 1680 x 1050
Viewing Area: 1024 x 730
Safari with tabs and an address bar across the top.
There is a minor problem with the code. I run two screens. 1920x1200 on my laptop, and 1280x1024 as a secondary.
IE was running on the 2nd screen, fully expanded (1259 x 853).
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1277 x 836
fullscreen Firefox, tab bar, status bar, bookmark bar, windows taskbar
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 940 x 745
Mozilla 1.7.7: Navigation, Personal and Tab toolbars.
Screen: 1400 x 1050
Viewing Area: 1318 x 795
Firefox 1.07 using tabs, no sidebar and not maxed on screen.
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1280 x 838
Screen: 1280 x 1024 Viewing Area: 1278 x 856 Firefox: usual toolbars, tabs, small icons
Screen: 1680 x 1050
Viewing Area: 1145 x 712
Firefox + small icons + web developer toolbar + all-in-one-sidebar + delicious toolbar
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1005 x 786
Double-sized Windows start bar (twice as high). Sometimes ICQ sits on Left-hand side.
Screen: 1600 x 1200
Viewing Area: 1432 x 948
Screen: 1600 x 1200
Viewing Area: 1592 x 952
Firefox, tabs, small icons
Wait a minute...I don't have any sidebars at all and I'm all the way down to 952?!?!?! Funny, my Webdeveloper's extentions says my firefox window is 1592 x 1152. That sounds a bit more realistic. Might want to check the code....
Screen: 1280 x 960 Viewing Area: 988 x 771
--safari taking up 3/4 of screen.
Or..... I just got my axis' crossed......
*me runs away and hides......
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1280 x 780
Firefox, Bookmark toolbar, css toolbar & google toolbar
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1272 x 797
Firefox, tabs, bookmarks toolbar, StumbleUpon
Screen: 1280 x 854 Viewing Area: 977 x 708
Safari's window has the Address, Bookmarks & Status bars visible, plus the tab bar.
Screen: 1024 x 768
Viewing Area: 1014 x 559
Screen: 1280 x 854
Viewing Area: 1011 x 614
Safari with tabs, status bar in the bottom
Screen: 1280 x 800
Viewing Area: 1280 x 586
Firefox with Web developer bar Navigation, Bookmarks and bottom status. No sidebars
Screen: 1280 x 800 Viewing Area: 1097 x 607
Firefox Google toolbar All in one sidbar toolbar Google Sidebar
Screen: 1024 x 768
Viewing Area: 1024 x 548
Firefox, no sidebars, just the Webdeveloper extension in the upper part of the window.
Screen: 1024 x 768
Viewing Area: 1016 x 566
Firefox on Ubuntu Linux, Gnome panels top and bottom.
Screen: 1440 x 900
Viewing Area: 818 x 612
Internet Exploder
Screen: 1400 x 1050
Viewing Area: 1379 x 841
Screen: 1400 x 1050
Viewing Area: 1388 x 833
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1016 x 794
I run firefox resized to 1024 width for testing, but i like it a little longer so I don't have to scroll
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1259 x 884
Screen: 1024 x 768 Viewing Area: 1024 x 561
Firefox on Windows X.P. laptop. Why am I not getting to see a couple of hundred lines on my screen?
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1280 x 853
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1280 x 832
Firefox 1.0.6 with Navigation, Bookmark and Web Developer toolbars and no sidebars.
Screen: 800 x 600
Viewing Area: 780 x 472
Not running many toolbars (just Google)... I like a clean system with lots of bookmarks. The larger screen resolution is easier on my eyes.
Screen: 1280 x 1024 Viewing Area: 912 x 750
I very rarely use anything full screen. I'm using windows. In windows.
Screen: 1024 x 768
Viewing Area: 869 x 645
Running Safari with Apple Menu Bar, Address bar, bookmarks bar, tab bar open
Screen: 1680 x 1050
Viewing Area: 1659 x 872
Screen: 1152 x 864
Viewing Area: 1152 x 649
I have the standard bar in firefox, plus the web development bar, plus the tab bar.
Screen: 2560 x 1024
Viewing Area: 917 x 500
My screen resolution is so weird because I've configured my dual LCDs to be one screen. Yet I only take a portion of one.
Firefox w/ Navigation and Bookmarks Toolbars and tab area at top, and Status Bar at bottom.
Screen: 1280 x 1024 Viewing Area: 1280 x 752
I used to have a 1/2-of-screen-browser-width until recently, when some applications forced me to go fullscreen. I still like the 1/2 better though...
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 792 x 890
I hate wide sites.
Looking good as always Gadgetopia!
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1272 x 907
Using Firefox with a single tool bar at top & tab bar, plus status bar at bottom. Looking good as always Gadgetopia!
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 999 x 848
Opera with panels and bookmarks open on the left.
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1264 x 841
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1280 x 831
I duno what the things are called:
The File, Edit, View, Go, Bookmark, Tools, Help bar The bar where you type in your address A Bookmarks bar Tabs of pages I am viewing
Windows xp taskbar
this is on the latest firefox.
Screen: 1680 x 1050
Viewing Area: 1680 x 874
Menubar Navigation Links
[Viewable]
Status bar Start Bar
Screen: 1280 x 1024
Viewing Area: 1274 x 835
These numbers have been compiled here:
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