What’s a Good Web Page Size

When a visitor comes to your Website(browsing pages through browser), he/she should be able to see the entire width of the page without having to scroll left and right. People don’t mind scrolling up and down, but they get annoyed if they also have to scroll left and right.

A web page must be able to work with as many browsers and screen resolutions as possible, but web-designers must find a “happy middle ground” since there are a variety of screen resolutions and sizes in use.

As we scan the Web, we will see that Websites use different page widths.

Most of popular sites are set up to display a full 1024 pixel page width with Graphics and Content.
Others will even go beyond 1024 pixels.
Some sites keep their pages to a narrower 750 to 800 pixel width.
Still, others sites will hold their Graphics and Content within the 750 to 800 pixel width and places advertisements beyond the 800 pixel width on the right hand side of the page.
A few sites still use a page width of 640 pixels.

Now days, most all computer users have a monitor that can display a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels or higher and a majority of them have 1024×768 or higher resolutions. There are very few people who still use a 640 x 480 resolution screen.

Many Web designers design for a screen width of around 750 pixels. This page size will fit on an 800 x 600 screen and allows a little extra room for borders. This width will also work for all higher resolutions as there will just be a little more space between the edge of the Web page and the edge of the screen.

There is no “right or wrong” answer to the question. Web-Designers have to decide which size they want to design for, but the 750 to 800 pixel width page will fit onto the most screens without users having to scroll left and right, although a wider 1024 pixel page allows for more information.

I recommend that page should not be wider than the 1024 width and narrower than the 750 pixel width.

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