Your Website Deserves An ‘F’ – How Visitors Read Your Website

Last Update: March 23, 2011

What if I were to tell you that most visitors who land on your website only read about 30 percent of your content and the majority of that content is at the very top AND on the left side.

It’s true, your visitors are only picking up a fraction of your message. Our eyes are ‘trained’ or ‘conditioned’ to pick up the content that is on the left side.

Want to know what your visitors are reading on your website? Print out one of your site pages, and draw a big ‘F’ on the page with a highlighter. The content or images within this ‘F’ is what your site visitors are seeing and absorbing.

Don’t believe me? Have a look at the below eye tracking study from a Google Search engine result page (SERP). See the ‘F’?


So now that you understand that why your website deserves an ‘F’, make sure that the most important message is within this area of prime visual real estate.

This is just one of the interesting topics I will be talking about on this Friday's WAbinar.

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jatdebeaune Premium
Looking forward to your WAbinar.
Louise M. Premium
interesting! now I'm convinced to attend your WAbinar..! ;)
mmorales Premium
I've seen this before and found it to be very interesting. Great info Jay, what program is used for this? Oh...I guess I will find out tomorrow evening. Thanks!
Sherion Premium
Thanks Jay. That is good to know. I am going to check my websie now for that F.
Jamie Smith Premium
Nice 1 Jay
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