Some of you may care about design. John was researching an age old question, “what is the predominant browser area”. The answer? 776 x 424. Basically, if we design for 776 x 424, 95% of you will not have to scroll to see the content.
Some might be asking, “where did the magic numbers come from”? Thomas Baekda’s report “Actual Browser Sizes“. In his report, he documents how he captured browser window sizes from visitors, crunched the numbers, and came to his conclusions.
Digging a little deeper, I discovered that he seems to have used a “pepper” from Mint. What is Mint? “Mint is an extensible web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint’s flexible dashboard.”
