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Blog Readability – Tracking Eye Movements

11 Jul

Jakob Nielsen has an interesting article about the F-Shaped Pattern that occurs when people scan through a web page.

Placement of ads and your most valuable links can be optimized given the “F-shape” pattern, and sometimes an upside down “L-shape” or “E-shape” pattern.

It makes you wonder if using a right-hand navigation bar is better or worse…as you’re going against the learned behavior most people use when scanning a web page.

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