(no subject)

[dolari]

According to my website tracker the largest portion of my readers use 1920x1080 as their native resolution.

Should I "scale up" my site to 1920x1080? Or go with a smaller, but probably more common 1600x900? Right now, the site is optimized for 1024x768 which is getting a little on the small side.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I vote for 1366*768, which is my most common resolution. (2 TVs & 1 monitor; singletons @ 640*480, 1024*768, 1600*900.)

[lovelyangel.livejournal.com]

A site sized for 1920px width will almost guarantee the viewer will have horizontal scroll bars appear in their browser view. For one thing, if you count the browser frame, even if maximized, the viewing area will be less than 1920 px because of space taken up by the browser frame. (And many people, like myself, don't run the browser full screen, as we like to have multiple windows open and overlaid on the desktop.) Also, I suspect most of the lower resolution monitors you're seeing are laptops. I don't know how many people are going to have high resolution laptop displays - especially if they're on a budget.

And how would a large site look on a mobile phone? That's usually the tough thing about site design nowadays. Converting to responsive web design is kind of a pain. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design)

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Hm! Neither of mine are there. ^_^; But then, "retina" devices might deliberately report a lower resolution back in some circumstances; in my case, the MBP (2880x1800), and iPad Air (2048x1536), given the dual world such devices have to straddle, in order to avoid displaying tiny images most of the time - normally, the OS simply pixel doubles (depending on the display setting, in OS X's case) images, though I believe that's an automatic affair, so large images will be displayed at full resolution.

All that said, I'm fine with the layout as is. It's what the site holds that counts, far more than any other aspect. ^_^

(I admit, I'm surprised to see so many 1024x768 and suchlike - maybe low-end tablets?)