Wednesday October 20, 2010, 11:24Because of improvements in technology and human behaviors web standards change. While, even few years ago the standard width of a website was 800px, nowadays it seems to be not enough pixels in a horizontal direction to show nicely content on the web.

The standard width is driven by a size of screens used by Internet users, and a resolution of those screens.

Let's see data about some popular websites, and a width of the biggest wrapper of the page:

• NYT.com - 972px
• Cnn.com - 1002px
• Facebook - 980px

Another source of the decision about a width of your website should be data collected by Google Analytics which you have probably connected to your site. It shows statistic about a resolution among your users.

According to data from W3School Display Statistics, if you use resolution around 1000px, you will cover more than 96% of Internet users.

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What is the standard width for a website now?

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What is the standard width for a website now?

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