The pngs do not render for me but have you seen so-called-treemap plots to
represent screen size in the user base? They are very self descriptive.
Here is a famous one for android devices and screen sizes, scroll down a
bit for device fragmentation:

http://opensignal.com/reports/fragmentation-2013/

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Gilles Dubuc <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We set up some data collection a few weeks back to look at the
> distribution of actual screen size, viewport size and media viewer canvas
> size on sampled users. This will ultimately be used to come up with a
> better choice of thumbnail size buckets for Media Viewer.
>
> I had some spare time and figured I'd try to generate a visualization of
> that data, which we haven't analyzed yet.
>
> Here are the results:
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Screen_heatmap.png
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Viewport_heatmap.png
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Canvas_heatmap.png
> (Media Viewer-specific)
>
> I think it shows quite strikingly how screen size really doesn't matter
> much compared to the actual available viewport. Hopefully this data will be
> useful for other folks too, since I don't believe we tracked that
> information before. And given media viewer's traffic, it should be pretty
> representative of wikis in general.
>
> The data used to generate those images is all the data we've collected so
> far. I haven't looked at differences between wikis, etc. For people with
> analytics access, the EL table I dug that data from is
> MultimediaViewerDimensions_10014238
>
> Note that this is mostly desktop, since it's very unusual to run Media
> Viewer on mobile devices, considering it hasn't been made for it and
> themobile site has its own MV-like lightbox.
>
> The code used to generate these is this quick and dirty Processing script
> I hacked together: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P39
>
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