Ask HN: Surge of 800x600 desktop resolution since May 2025

2 pointsklakierr7mo ago2 comments

Since May 2025 800x600 started rapidly growing and not is top 2 at 14.44%:

https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution- stats/desktop/worldwide

Looks like its specific to Asia:

https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/asia

its top 1 at 29.66% there (but not in China or India)

whats behind it?

2 comments

rrr_oh_man7mo ago

AI / scraper bots. Headless Chrome and Puppeteer default to 800x600 iirc.

Edit: Yup, seems correct. See Puppeteer docs [1]. Several issues suggest the same for Chromium. [2]

[1] https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.connectoptions

[2] e.g. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40601921

klakierrOP7mo ago

looks like all the other resolution started to decrease so probably its the same devices but hiding the resolution. maybe some privacy feature for some Asian countries was introduced back then?

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