Blog Readability - Tracking Eye Movements

Tue, July 11, 2006 — Category: Development

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 […]

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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September 27, 2006 @ 3:22 am

[…] Above is a sample heat map of the typical forum traffic hot spots where people view and click when visiting a forum. As you can see, it starts to resemble the “F-Pattern” that is commonly referred to when discussing the areas of a page that get the most eye balls. […]

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