BYONDer Statistics

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Dec 28 2011, 7:40 am
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Just dropping some statistics I quickly gathered from Google Analytics, to allow developers to see what kind of specifications most current BYONDers have floating around. These figures are taken over the whole of 2011. It is worth noting, this is current website viewers only.

In each case, I'll offer top 10 results where there are more than 10.

Screen Resolution
  1. 1024x768 - 20.89%
  2. 1366x768 - 19.20%
  3. 1280x800 - 10.75%
  4. 1280x1024 - 8.85%
  5. 1440x900 - 8.00%
  6. 1600x900 - 4.92%
  7. 1920x1080 - 4.68%
  8. 1680x1050 - 4.30%
  9. 1024x600 - 2.35%
  10. 1152x864 - 2.09%

Screen Colours
  1. 32-bit - 59.18%
  2. 24-bit - 38.37%
  3. 16-bit - 2.27%
  4. Other - 0.17%

Flash Support
Flash support is essentially ubiquitous in the statistics, there being an offering of flash versions as opposed to whether it's supported at all.
  1. 10.3 - 33.00%
  2. 10.2 - 25.88%
  3. 10.1 - 12.06%
  4. 11.1 - 6.61%
  5. 11.0 - 6.38%

Java Support
  1. Yes - 90.32%
  2. No - 9.68%

Operating System Type
  1. Windows - 97.00%
  2. Macintosh - 1.17%
  3. Linux - 0.49%

And now a few demographics:

Country of Origin
  1. United States - 52.07%
  2. Brazil - 11.34%
  3. United Kingdom - 5.91%
  4. Canada - 4.98%
  5. Netherlands - 1.48%
  6. Australia - 1.46%
  7. Poland - 1.46%
  8. Germany - 1.03%
  9. Philippines - 0.88%
  10. Portugal - 0.87%

Hope this helps shape a few design decisions, for people looking to appeal to BYOND's existing userbase.
Dec 28 2011, 7:59 am
So I'm the only person who still uses 800x600?
Dec 28 2011, 8:04 am
Seeing the large amount of Brazilian players makes me want to include language packs with my games now. (:
Thanks for these stats, Stephen!
Dec 28 2011, 8:18 am
We do see a number of Brazilian language versions of games crop up to be listed, which would suggest some language support is a possible option for the developer.

It does open up an interesting community question though for games where the community is important, on the matter of integrating members who's English is perhaps not fantastic.

Glad I could help.
Dec 28 2011, 8:31 am
Macintosh is at least 20% of BYOND demographic, most of us are using bootcamp though.
Dec 28 2011, 8:34 am
Interesting, how did you come up with that particular statistic?
Dec 28 2011, 8:38 am
Well, since it's sorted by operating system, and you're using windows... you're not really using Mac OS, even if you're on a mac.
Dec 28 2011, 9:18 am
Oasiscircle wrote:
Seeing the large amount of Brazilian players makes me want to include language packs with my games now. (:
Thanks for these stats, Stephen!
Oasis circle if you look hard enough you will find anime games in brazilian on byond.
I saw a brazilian naruto game once.
Dec 28 2011, 9:26 am
@Laserdog: I was aware of these games, but besides a few attempts to make games multi-lengual I haven't seen any successful multi-lengual games on BYOND.
And a small pointer, Brazilian is not a language. They mainly speak Portuguese in Brazil.
Dec 28 2011, 11:55 am
I am the 1%
Dec 28 2011, 12:04 pm
Very interesting.
Dec 28 2011, 12:11 pm
I don't think the language thing is all that serious. Out of the 5000 average users, we all know that about 90 to 95% of them are here for anime or fan-games. That leaves a possible 500-something players for your original game. 11% ( Brazillians ) of 500 is 55. Out of those 55 people, they have to be interested in your game to begin with. For someone like Oasis making a shooter, it doesn't seem very likely he will get many players at all as it doesn't seem like we have a huge original shooter-game audience. Just look at Decadence.

Anyway, you'd basically be making a language pack for like, a dozen or a little over a dozen people. I don't know how much work goes into a language pack, but if it's a lot, I wouldn't bother. You're better off focusing on getting games promoted outside of the site, rather than catering to a community that most likely won't care about your game.
Dec 28 2011, 1:24 pm
Glad you guys have found this information useful. Do keep your thoughts coming on what these figures mean for you personally, and any other statistics you'd like to see.
Dec 28 2011, 1:33 pm
I'd like to know the percentage of BYOND users that have six toes on their left foot. If you could find that statistic, that'd be phenomenal.
Dec 28 2011, 1:36 pm
Yes, it would, wouldn't it?
Dec 28 2011, 1:57 pm (Edited on Dec 28 2011, 2:08 pm)
Thanks for this, very interesting.

P.S. off-topic but do you know what's going on with the site update? can you reveal anything?
Dec 28 2011, 2:15 pm
Metamorphman wrote:
P.S. off-topic but do you know what's going on with the site update? can you reveal anything?

I second this. At least give us a date, man. Throw us a frikin bone here.
Dec 28 2011, 3:48 pm
I wish I could, but I honestly haven't the foggiest on this one. I've actually not even seen it.
Dec 28 2011, 3:50 pm
Oh yeah? Well my resolution is 1360x768.
Dec 28 2011, 4:13 pm
Why are so many people running in 24-bit color mode? Surely the performance boost can't be that great?
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