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We have about 13k uniques/month. Here is our break down for the last 30 days:

1920x1200: 19.98%

1280x800: 14.38%

1440x900: 13.25%

1680x1050; 13.03%

1920x1080: 7.20%

1280x1024: 6.31%

2560x1440: 5.08%

1024x768: 4.69%

1366x768: 2.24%

2560x1600: 2.16%

Important caveat: our market is professional photographers, which have larger than average monitors.

EDIT TO ADD: If it helps, our OS breakdown is 58% Mac, 39.5% Win, and the remaining mobile/linux.

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our market is professional photographers

Here is data for an audience of amateurs and professionals (Steve's Digicams). 1 million unique visitors/month.

  1280x800 16.45%	
  1024x768 14.09%	
  1280x1024 13.02%	
  1680x1050 10.34%	
  1440x900 9.53%	
  1920x1200 6.03%	
  1366x768 5.08%	
  1920x1080 4.62%	
  1600x900 1.79%	
  1152x864 1.63%

80% Windows, 15% Mac

While high res screens seem relatively popular, I'm hoping that nobody is running their browser window maximized with 2560x1600 screen. I'm running 1680x1050, but still my browser window is 1085x1050 atm, with tab-bar taking 200px from the side.

I'm using 2048x1152, but my browser window is only 1161x1069. I sometimes maximize, but using HN with a maximised window is not an option :-)

wow, yeah 1920x1200 usually corresponds to a 24" monitor, which regular moms and pops aren't likely to have

Agreed. Looking at the same 500,000 uniques that I peeked at above, only 2% of our visitors have 1920x1200.

Am I the only person who has and uses a 1600x1200 monitor? People and their widescreen! ;)

It is getting harder and harder to find 4:3 monitors, so for me it's not my first choice that i now have a 1920x1080 as main screen. (I start drooling thinking of a 1920x1440 screen)

This is true and I'm looking forward to getting a 1920x1440 or higher monitor too.

I actually got a 4:3 monitor on purpose though, since at the time, big widescreen monitors were too expensive and I wasn't willing to settle for fewer vertical pixels (for programming, height is more important than width for me) and I didn't want the hassle of flipping a widescreen monitor sideways.

This is very interesting because it is highly likely that my target market (designers) has a similar screen resolution as yours.

Also interesting.....1280 x 800 is your second highest - i.e. 13" Macbook Pro.

That's very, very interesting.

That is...interesting. What are the aspect ratios on those monitors?

Computer monitors generally use square pixels, so it's trivial to calculate the aspect ratios using the resolutions.

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