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Browser size awareness at Google
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I have been preaching the importance of measuring
browser width rather than screen width for quite some time now.
Unfortunately, people still focus in the size of the users screen when
they discuss website design widths.
I don’t blame them. Most web analytics packages don’t
provide us with a metric that tells us the viewport widths of our
users, and as humans we are likely to grasp onto the metrics that is
available to us, not necessarily those that are important.
A tiny sparkle of hope has now emerged in a sea of ignorance: Someone
at Google figured out that people browse the web with differently
sized browser windows.
The result is a small tool to visualize what percentage of users can
actually see a given area of your website without having to scroll:
Google Browser Size
The tool is still pretty crude - as the comments to the introductory
post clearly tells - but in time it could get really useful. If
nothing else, it can hopefully be used to open the eyes of clients and
designers.
All I am waiting for is getting this rolled into Google Analytics,
preferably instead of the useless Screen Resolution metric.
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