Here are some screengrabs from globalstats about web traffic. This data aggregates data from the previous year (as of June 2025). It’s hard to say how representative this data is of general traffic. and frankly I’m not sure how they define screen resolution. I find it hard to believe that the 2nd/3rd/4th leading screen resolutions are all below 400×800 for United States visitors and pretty much 1st through 6th place for global traffic. I would have liked to see data about mobile phone ownership in the US and specifically screen resolutions of specific phones.
The most shocking thing is the low statistics about tablet users across the world. I suspect that avid readers like myself use a tablet more frequently than the average person. Of my Internet usage, it’s 50% on desktop, 45% on tablet and 5% on mobile phone. Of course, I’m talking mainly about reading and surfing, but on my tablet, I have always done gigantic editing jobs on my tablet. Ebook and PDF apps allow you to highlight and note certain sections of text which I can use for editing on my desktop. With the Kindle app, you can even email what you’ve highlighted and annotated from the actual text. I simply upload epubs I want to edit to Kindle Personal Docs, input the changes on my desktop and (the most important step!) confirm that the changes have successfully been made by comparing the revised text against the annotations I made on my tablet.
Summarized from AI: Below is a snapshot of approximate global mobile-browser usage broken down by device category and browser. Estimates assume ~5.56 billion monthly Internet users (all devices) and apply June 2025 Statcounter mobile browser shares. These figures help prioritize testing on:
- Samsung Internet, Opera Mini, UC Browser and stock Android browser for fringe coverage
- Chrome on Android devices (covers ~70 % of mobile traffic)
- Safari on iPhone (covers ~21 % of mobile traffic)
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