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> Jim Davis wrote:
>
> > The browser width report has only 50% of the data points of the screen
res
> > report.  That seems way too big a gap to assume percentages will be
> > representative across the board.
>
> That's a huge gap but it's not the gap on the Superstats site.  You seem
to
> have accidentally gotten the wrong numbers.
>
> I didn't keep the March stats but I just downloaded their current stats
and
> in the last day-and-a-bit (they reset the counters at the end of every
> month), they've got resolution data for 3,807 visitors (missed 32) and
width
> data for 3,717 visitors.
> That works out to about 98%, not 50%.

That's good - in that case the difference is safely in the "margin of error"
and you should be able to make good correlations.  But we still definition
of the width being captured.

However when I just went and looked at today's reports I see 1,322 on the
monitor res and 822 on the browser width report.  That's more like 65-70%.

The "this month's" reports are 3,168 for monitor res and 1,905 for browser
width.  That's around 66%.

The "This Year" reports show around 91,000 points on the browser width
report and 162,000 on the monitor res report.  This works out to what, about
60%(ish)?

The two reports generally  feature a very large gap - that gap is coming
from someplace.  Is it people with script turned off?  Old browsers?  Or
what?

> > If the latter then I think your statement makes perfect sense.  But I'll
> > stand by position that "their wants" are no horizontal scroll bar.
>
> That's incomplete: their wants are no horizontal scrollbar without having
to
> resize their monitors.  It's a usability issue.

Did I ever disagree that it's a usability issue?  Usability is putting my
kids through college - I want MORE issues to be usability issues!  And I
want more companies to hire usability consultants to fix them.  ;^)

They want no horizontal scroll bar and will maximize to get it.  Of course I
agree with you that NOBODY will reset their monitor resolution for a web
page (and that they should NEVER have too do this).

Jim Davis
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