Fewer long pages are less effective
Think index cards, not toilet paper: websites with many short pages — as opposed to those with fewer longer pages — work better.… Read the full article
Web design
Left is right
Visitors spend more than twice as long looking at the left side of your webpage
When it comes to viewing time, usability expert Jakob Nielsen says, web visitors spend:
- 69 percent looking at the left half of the screen
- 30 percent looking at the right half of the screen
- 1 percent looking at any part of the page that’s visible only by scrolling horizontally to the right
Stick to the conventional layout
To make the most of this reading pattern, Nielsen counsels that you:
- Keep navigation to the left of your page.