Width for a website

Using a WordPress theme that has the default website width set at ~1000px, this seems really tight on the screen and puts content in quite a narrow strip. I've been trying to find what a suitable width is for a site. Obviously don't want people to scroll left/ right to read. Is there an optimal width to use?

You’re going to want to make sure the Wordpress theme you’re using is responsive. Which means that it scales the website & it’s resolution according to what size the visitors screen is.

The average desktop view websites at 1920px. If you’re using a side bar, make sure that you’re not widening “content-width” only.

See here for some more info: https://www.hobo-web.co.uk/best-screen-size/

I personally use 1180px grid for most of the sites, but it really depends on the design ultimately.

PHPInjected said:

You’re going to want to make sure the Wordpress theme you’re using is responsive. Which means that it scales the website & it’s resolution according to what size the visitors screen is.

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As mentioned by the poster I quoted, I'm going to assume your site automatically scales the content width for smaller screens so that people don't have to scroll left and right to read off-screen content. If your theme requires actual side-scrolling on smaller screens, pick another theme right now!

However, I'm suspecting that what you mean with your post is that if 1000px is the max width of content, that's actually OK. I presume if you widen the screen then the content is in a strip and therefore the left and right sides are filled with background. That's not a bad thing! I tend to max my content width out at about 800 - 1200 px wide (depending on my site, topic, etc). I would not recommend much wider, although that's just my opinion. The reason for this is, imagine you have a user with a screen width of 2000px. Are you really going to make their eyes track that far left and right across the screen? It's not the best user experience.