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What is my viewport size and pixel density?

In recent years I’ve talked a lot about the importance of measuring the browser viewport (it’s not as big as you think). The rapid adoption of responsive web design and the launch of devices with high definition screens where a pixel is no longer a pixel have made

Screens are getting bigger, but not the browser viewport

Recently Jakob Nielsen published an alertbox proclaiming that computer screens are getting bigger. He is, by and large, right – excluding mobiles and tablets they are indeed getting bigger. What he fails to mention is that the browser viewport isn’t increasing at any where near the same rate. At the

Browser viewport statistics

There are plenty of statistics available on screen sizes/resolutions and their usage. Equally there are plenty of articles available on how you should optimise your site design for this size or that size. The truth is that screen resolution is only half of the equation. The other half, and

Screen sizes are getting smaller again

With more low-resolution devices being released all the time, such as ultra-mobile and ultra-cheap laptops (eg the Asus Eee PC), handhelds with mobile/wifi connectivity (such as the iPhone and the PSP), it is rapidly becoming unsafe to dismiss certain screen sizes when you redesign a website.