Internet User Statistics
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Color Quality Statistics
Statistics are important information when designing websites. Based on the statistics below, we can determine that most users are viewing the web with a color depth of at least 65K colors. The current trend is that most computers use 24 or 32 bit hardware to display 16,777,216 different colors.
Date
|
16,777,216
|
65,536
|
256
|
January 2008
|
90%
|
8%
|
2%
|
January 2007
|
86%
|
11%
|
2%
|
January 2006
|
81%
|
16%
|
3%
|
January 2005
|
72%
|
25%
|
3%
|
January 2004
|
65%
|
31%
|
4%
|
January 2003
|
51%
|
44%
|
5%
|
January 2002
|
43%
|
50%
|
7%
|
January 2001
|
37%
|
55%
|
8%
|
January 2000
|
34%
|
54%
|
12%
|
Older computers and laptops often use 16 bits display hardware. This gives a maximum of 65,536 different colors. Handheld computers, cellular phones (and very old computers) often use 8 bits color hardware. This gives a maximum of 256 colors.