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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