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

[klakierr]

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?

[rrr_oh_man]

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

[klakierr]

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?