Kolowich on Rethinking the "Ideal Page Width" for Web Design
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 8:23AM Over on the Web Video Expert blog, ChannelOne partner Michael Kolowich shares some interesting data that contradicts the conventional wisdom that web pages should be designed for a 800-pixel-wide screen.
In fact, he found that fewer than 1.5% of visitors to the diginovations.com website had screens of 800 pixels or less, and he argues for a new "least common denominator" page width of 920 pixels, to accommodate a 1024-wide screen.
Check out the detailed data on his post, "It's Time to Re-Think the 'Ideal Page Width' for Web Design."
Hmmm...maybe we should do the same here at www.channelonemarketing.com. A look at a similar analysis in Google Analytics applied to our site shows that less than 3% of our visitors have screens with fewer than 1024 pixels width. Don't be surprised to see us widen this site to 920 pixels before too long.