What is the most widespread screen resolution?

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One of the biggest concerns of customers when applying for the design of a corporate website is what is the ideal resolution to draw up your website. Will it look good on all devices? Is it not better to keep the “usual” screen width, the 1024? Will my page on the mobile be flawed? What is that about [responsivity] (/ articles / google- penalize -the -webs-not-adapted -to-devices-mobiles /) What’s so much to talk about?

This is also one of the main questions of web designers when it comes to try to optimize the usability of your work, an aspect that today has become especially important due to the wide variety of devices from which you access the Internet and the increasing relevance that Google is giving to the so-called design responsible when showing the results of a search.

All of that makes it more difficult to decide what kind of resolution to apply. **Traditionally, the most used were designs for a width of 1024.**but currently the trend is towards larger screens, with the resolution 1366 × 768 px most used on the Internet -with data from February 2015- and the Windows 8 standard.

According to the data offered in the Screen Resolution web Currently more than 27% of the screens have a resolution of 1366 × 768, while this measure in 2009 was only used by 2% of users. The second type with more followers is 1920 × 1080, which use around 10% of Internet users in 2015, while in 2009 it appeared in a residual way in the classification with only 0.67% of users. Third, 1024 × 768, although it is only maintained by 8% of the screens compared to the more than 40% that used it in 2009, when it was undoubtedly the most widespread measure.

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But with all this we have not answered the question of what type of screen resolution is best, not even the most effective, only the one that is most used today by users. Furthermore, these data are based on global statistics and, taking into account the wide variety of screens existing (in the Screen Resolution classification appear up to 2,131 different types of resolutions) it is impossible to have a total success.

In fact, in view of the general trend towards the expansion of the screens, the Internet is increasing from smaller devices such as smartphones or tablets. High-end smartphones both the resolution and the size of the screen are usually elevated, around the 5 inches and Full HD, with 1080 × 1920 pixels of average. For a medium-range smartphone, where one of the two features is usually to be put before, it is usually better to give the resolution a premium to ensure an acceptable graph.

What we do know is that the most popular resolutions in recent years have gone from 320 × 480 and 800 × 480, which are increasingly less used, to the 1280 × 720 HD, the 1920 × 1080 Full HD, 2K (with 2048 x 1080 pixels) or 2560 × 1440 pixels from the Quad HD, which will be used more and more on the screens of smartphones and tablets.

Conclusion: there is no categorical answer to the initial question. The main thing is to know what the objective of your website is and to remember that in the end the fundamental thing is that your website works properly - and in the easiest way possible for the user - on any device.

THE RECOMMENDATION OF GOOGLE: DIENSIVE * RESPONSIVE♪

And here we come back to the concept we cited at the beginning of the text: adaptable web design, known as *RWD ( Responsive Website Design *)**. With an unstoppable increase in Internet access from mobile devices - around 95% - and an increasing variety of devices from which the network can be accessed -computer (77%), tablet (29%), e-reader (13%)… adapting the appearance of the web to the device used is the objective for the near future.

The idea is in line with the one he always defends. Google: offer the user the best possible experience. In fact, as we told you a few weeks ago, the star search engine announced through its webmaster tool that from April [will penalize positioning] (http: / / www.contrabase.com / diseno-web / google-penalize -the -webs-no-adapts-a-devices-mobiles /) of those web pages that do not meet the requirements to be mobile friendly, i.e. not to guarantee the user’s good experience in mobile devices. This change will affect search results from a smartphone as the relevance of the results will also depend on the adaptability variable. In short, they will be different through a mobile and, for example, a laptop, with all that means for positioning.

So when you ask what kind of screen resolution is the best the only conclusion is that, when you face a future that irremediably passes through the multiscreen, be responsible, my friend.