What happened to web design - why are there such large resolutions for mobile devices?

Question

Design

Greetings.

Some time ago, I began to notice that many sites show the desktop version of the design only at a resolution greater than 1200-1300 pixels. And below that shows me a mobile menu button and other mobile gizmos. I'm wondering if I may have missed something? Are there really so many mobile devices with such a resolution that you need to make such designs? I looked at the statistics on mobile devices and, it seems, I did not find a large number of mobile devices with such a resolution, they are, but there are very few of them in the total volume.

Personally, it is not very convenient for me to expand the browser window to such a width (about 1200px is comfortable) and I often have to stretch the browser window to view the site in normal desktop mode. It feels like, I don’t know, the design of some sites is made so large that it can be seen from 10 meters on the monitor, in front of which you actually sit a meter away.

Explain the situation?

Answer 1

1. The share of mobile traffic reaches 80-90% on most resources
2. The minimum desktop resolution that 99% of desktop users have is 1366x768 (the cheapest 15.6-inch laptops are already 10 years old. I bought the first laptop in 2010. And in 2009, there was already a 1440x900 monitor on the PC). At the same time, the most common is Full HD (1920x1080). Everything below is a tablet.
This begs the question: why, for the sake of one and a half diggers, burn the money of customers / investors, developing a separate interface for them, if they can also use the mobile version, t.to. are they fully functional now? Or, if you do not develop a separate one, then why design interfaces, focusing on those 1.5 diggers, forcing the remaining 99% to suffer (conditionally)?
Moreover, these 1.5 diggers usually turn out to be an insolvent audience (since they still have a monitor / laptop older than 10 years).

Answer 2

Designers and typesetters work on high-resolution 27+ high-resolution monitors.
The management that accepts their work sits at the same monitors or on mobile devices with Retina displays ;-)
Studies of the target audience and their devices are also carried out for show.
And you described the result above.
Saving traffic??? Process, compress/optimize graphic elements before publishing? What for??
Everywhere 5G and Wifi 6.

Answer 3

Most likely, the device detection scripts are not correctly processed somewhere. It would be nice if modern site designers saw your question in order to understand their mistake ... From a design point of view, linking specifically to screen resolution is not a good solution.
ps It's not so bad when the mobile menu button is on the desktop. The other day I came across a site where from my phone I could only look at the menu and a small piece of the page on the right, because the brilliant designer banned horizontal scrolling on the site and did not make a mobile version of the site.

Answer 4

IMHO, many people generally now scored on the desktop during development, because the share of traffic from smartphones already exceeds 70-80% - the picture in the metric is quite standard .
Therefore, they don’t particularly delve into the convenience for the desktop, the main thing is that it is guaranteed to look large, clear and without scrolling in the mobile)

Answer 5

Because adaptive. Save on traffic, respectively, do not load the page with content. And whatever looks dull, increase the fonts and indents.

Answer 6

The question is incorrect. There is no mass phenomenon of demonstrating a mobile version of a site on a desktop, there are separate sites, different versions of which are difficult to maintain - they generally refuse the desktop version.
In the given example of the roistat site, this is simply a decision of a specific developer or a flaw. In the css code, you can see that he added a bunch of styles under a lot of unjustified permissions, as if he was just experimenting and it went into release.
There is already a long-standing trend on mobile first, yes. Another trend is to show mobile design on the desktop (more precisely, a universal UI based on mobile), for example, the same Google or mail services. But this is already a matter of system consistency and the priority of the mobile version.