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Scrolling and Attention

Jakob Nielsen has some very interesting thoughts on Scrolling and Attention (also known as “the age old ‘above the fold’ debate”). Backed up by extensive user-testing and data, Nielsen summarises the findings as follows:

Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold.

Well worth reading, Nielsen’s common sense advice is hard to dispute.

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