GVU's Sixth WWW User Survey Usage Graphs

Monitor Color Support

Notes:

Of equal importance to the size of the screen users employ to experience the WWW is the monitor's color support. While many users are unsure of their monitor's color support (34.76%), 38.16% claim to have 24 bit deep color and 20.19% claim to have 16 bit deep color. Less than 1% of the users have monochrome monitors. Europeans were more likely to have 8 bit color (8.94%) compared to the US users (3.77%).

Table of Data for All Categories

Monitor Color Support	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
16 bit Color	2086.00 20.19%	1530.00 22.81%	444.00 14.56%	1615.00 19.97%	122.00 20.57%	316.00 18.13%	1266.00 21.15%	256.00 22.22%
24 bit Color	3942.00 38.16%	2902.00 43.27%	824.00 27.02%	3156.00 39.03%	192.00 32.38%	690.00 39.59%	2381.00 39.78%	359.00 31.16%
8 bit Color	423.00 4.09%	359.00 5.35%	45.00 1.48%	305.00 3.77%	53.00 8.94%	70.00 4.02%	276.00 4.61%	30.00 2.60%
Color	3591.00 34.76%	1772.00 26.42%	1604.00 52.59%	2785.00 34.44%	209.00 35.24%	600.00 34.42%	1906.00 31.85%	491.00 42.62%
Don't Know	138.00 1.34%	44.00 0.66%	85.00 2.79%	107.00 1.32%	6.00 1.01%	44.00 2.52%	53.00 0.89%	5.00 0.43%
Monochrome	76.00 0.74%	51.00 0.76%	24.00 0.79%	57.00 0.70%	6.00 1.01%	14.00 0.80%	52.00 0.87%	5.00 0.43%
Other	75.00 0.73%	49.00 0.73%	24.00 0.79%	61.00 0.75%	5.00 0.84%	9.00 0.52%	51.00 0.85%	6.00 0.52%

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GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280