Royal Deer Design » web standards https://www.royaldeerdesign.com Web Design Company Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:08:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 What is the standard width for a website now? https://www.royaldeerdesign.com/2010/10/what-is-the-standard-width-for-a-website-now/ https://www.royaldeerdesign.com/2010/10/what-is-the-standard-width-for-a-website-now/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:24:07 +0000 http://coot.arvixe.com/~royald/?p=1903 Because 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:

  • YT.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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