> Our “popularity” guesstimates are derived from annualized monthly Google queries (from AdWords traffic estimator), and some fuzzy math. It’s not scientific, but it’s better than nothing.
...to be honest, I'm not sure if it really is 'better than nothing' - I don't think Google queries are a good indicator at all of install base, but I guess that's not what they're measuring - rather, the more nebulous 'popularity'. Also, it's going to lead to lots of problems with iPads, which I think you can see by the fact the iPad Mini has a 'popularity' of 2.5%.
This is a terrific resource, especially the "Device-W" column. Thank you.
For the tablets though, I'm finding the table's usability diminished by the inconsistent width/height relationships. For most of the devices width is smaller than height, but for a number of them it's the opposite. Why is this? Is this how the manufacturers report the #'s?
Edit: I realize now that it's because different tablets have different default orientations. Yet another challenge in designing for mobile.
The other resolution I find important is facebook canvas app sizes and facebook page apps. And also the actual usable size of the browser in a phone after URL bar is taken into account. Awesome anyway though.
If you want it to be really cool, show a graphical mode above the table to be able to compare different rows of the table by relative size. Shouldn't be too hard to draw some rectangles :)
Just a request: Can stuff be "merged"? When looking at computer monitors, I sometimes don't care about if it's an Asus, Acer, Samsung etc. Sometimes all I want is a grouping to show common screen sizes/densities/etc.
And where do you get the popularity from? Can't believe 70% of all screens are by Apple.
My nexus 7 is physically 800 x 1280. However if you're running VNC in landscape mode you want to set up a non-scrolling session of 1280x736 because of the bars.
Other than VNC I suppose similar issues exist if you're trying to edit a pixel-perfect background image or something like that.
