Apr 062010
Jakob Nielsen released a new report to day: Horizontal Attention Leans Left. His findings indicate that web users spend 69% of their time on the left hand side of the page.
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Jakob Nielsen released a new report to day: Horizontal Attention Leans Left. His findings indicate that web users spend 69% of their time on the left hand side of the page.
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Nice link.
Very interesting read about different right to left languages using left justification.
English language sites using RHS navigation just seems odd.
Oh I see but I used to recognize website having right side bar than left
I guess you didn’t see my note on the right to not comment on this post:)
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You’ve certainly been following the ‘left’ adage for a long time, Rob.
I hadn’t really noticed but whenever I scale two browsers on my screen side by side, I always do it in a way that the left is more visible than the right, lol.
Till then,
Jean
Yes, I also observed that website that are align left side portion of the browser is much better for my eyes.
I’m flummoxed, this goes against what I was taught. What would Google think?
How about…what does Google do? Do a search on anything and click web options near the top. A menu pops up on the left.
Google Analytics, menu on the left. Google Maps, options on the left. Google Reader, menu on the left. Google Wave, nav menu on the left. Google Adwords menu on top and left. IGoogle, menu on the left.
Facebook, menu on the top and left, and the list goes on…will make another post about that question now!
Although Facebook ads are always on the right.
Till then,
Jean
Well, this is indeed interesting. I will check out my websites in regards to this. Thanks.
yea everything is on the left so i am going to make a site with all the important stuff on the right just to be a rebel, lol
sure all people look at the left side because in most of blogs the left side contains the content.
That’s why your ads are on the left. hehe. I think it also depends on the layout(the colors).
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And what about rtl languages like urdu, arabic?
You should read his article. Thin link to it is in this post.
I wonder why all the menus are on the left while Facebook Ads and Google Ads and Yahoo Ads are on the right.
The best place for ads is on the left, on the right, on top and bottom
This is very interesting Another few hours of reading…. studying and visiting your website.
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I never noticed this before and I never even thought it is relevant but then again maybe it is for it to be a norm in most websites. Thanks for bringing this up ^^
This is very interesting, I never noticed this before and I never thought it was relevant but perhaps it is for websites to consistently do it right? Thanks for this info!
It?s really great that pleope are sharing this information.