K2 Radio » webpages http://k2radio.com Wyoming's Radio Station Mon, 20 May 2013 16:27:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Study Finds Webpages are Read By People in an F-Shaped Pattern http://k2radio.com/study-finds-webpages-are-read-by-people-in-an-f-shaped-pattern/ http://k2radio.com/study-finds-webpages-are-read-by-people-in-an-f-shaped-pattern/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:00:48 +0000 Grace Niemitalo http://k2radio.com/?p=14930 A new study by usability expert Jakob Nielsen reveals that when webpages are read, we read and scan the text in an F-shape.

Using eyetracking software, he found the first paragraph gets the most attention, making the top horizontal line of the F. The next paragraph only gets half the attention of the first, tracing the second shorter horizontal line of the F. And finally, we skim down the rest of the article vertically.

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