8 ways to improve usability for your website
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8 Ways to Improve Usability For Your Website
Web users spend 2.6 second scanning a website before focusing on a particular section.180 milliseconds or “fixating” on a particular section before moving on.Your headline approximately -1 second to capture a reader’s attention before ignored.60% of the time, people fail to find the information they seek.
Improve usability for your website
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1. REMOVE EXTRA CHATTER•Too much irrelevant information forces 62% of
online shoppers to give up looking for a specific product or service online
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1. REMOVE EXTRA CHATTER•58% increase in web usability when
webmasters cut the number of words that appear on their pages in half
•Cut down amount of words used on page
•On average only 28% of the text is read
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2. PUT INFO WHERE THE MOST EYES ARE
•Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold
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2. PUT INFO WHERE THE MOST EYES ARE
•Web users spend 69% of their time viewing the left side of page
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3. MAXIMIZE HOW WEB VISITORS “READ” Page
• Two horizontal stripes• One vertical stripe
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3. MAXIMIZE HOW WEB VISITORS “READ” Page
• CTA SHORTER VERTICAL STRIPE
• NAVIGATION BAR IN LONGER VERTICAL STRIPE
• HEADLINE IN HORIZONTAL STRIPE
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4. QUICK LOAD TIME• People will visit website less often if it is slower
by more than 250 milliseconds
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4. QUICK LOAD TIME• Four out of five online users will click away if a
video stalls while loading
• Online supporters expects pages to load in two seconds or fewer- and at three seconds
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5. SEARCH BOX SIZE• Average search box 18-characters wide -27% of
queries were too long to fit into it
• Extending the box to 27 characters would accommodates 90% of queries
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6. PAGE LAYOUT• Optimize for a length of 1000-1600 pixels and
width of about 770 pixels
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6. PAGE LAYOUT• Use same layout for all pages
• Same navigation menu should appear on every web page of your website in the same place
• Don’t allow visitors to arrive at dead end web pages orphan pages
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7. TYPOGRAPHY• Keep number of different fonts to minimum
8% of men are color blind for important text
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7. TYPOGRAPHY• Use other cues besides color to draw attention
• Use 4 different colors or less for text it will decrease confusion
• Optimal width for the text lines to between 45 and 75 characters
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8. LINKS ON SITE• Should be blue because this is common color
for links on other site
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8. LINKS ON SITE• Should change color after clicked
• Should be descriptive enough that user knows where link is taking them
• 74% of websites use different colors for visited and unvisited links
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