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22 Jan 2010

20 Indispensable Websites For Understanding Web Usability

Author: Will Fowler | Filed under: Usability
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Good news! Google Analytics is reporting that your SEO efforts are working and the result is traffic and alot of it. The bad news is your websites bounce rate. Analytics measures your bounce rate by determining the number of users that visit a landing page and don’t click any other links. The truth is you may have masterful SEO and fantastic content, but if users are not engaging your site your wasting your time. According to Jacob Neilsen, web usability guru, most visitors don’t scroll below the fold, and you only have a few seconds to engage your visitor.

There was a golden day in the internet where large flashy ads and bright colors was all you needed to get people to click. These day however due to overuse of ads web surfers are practically unaware of banners, called “banner blindness”. To further compound problems the average visitor is in a hurry and at best they will just scan a page and bounce if it’s not engaging. The solution to these problems is good usability and design. Some large corporations pay six figures for these kind of studies, but there is a wealth of info online below I have listed 20 treasure troves of usability goodness.

  1. Jacob Neilsen Web Usability Guru
  2. Great Usability site made by the National Cancer Institute
  3. Information and resources for key issues related to usability in website and software design.
  4. 786 links about web usability
  5. The web site of John S. Rhodes well-known usability and user experience guru.
  6. Usability Testing Software
  7. 10 Useful Usability Finding and Guidlines
  8. 15 Valuable Usability PDFs You’ve Never Heard Of
  9. 15 Important Research Findings You Should Know
  10. 10 Additional Research Findings You Should Know
  11. Introduction To Good Usability
  12. 11 Striking Findings From an Eye-Tracking Study
  13. 25 Incredibly Useful Usability Cheat Sheets And Checklists
  14. 10 Usability Findings To Increase Sales And Customer Loyalty
  15. Web form design guidelines: an eye-tracking study
  16. Great blog on Usability
  17. Portfolio Usability and Design Study
  18. Web form Usability Design Study
  19. Blog Design and Usability Study
  20. Typography Study

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7 Responses to “20 Indispensable Websites For Understanding Web Usability”

  2. It is so wonderful for me,which will help me a lot about the seo job.

  4. I’m new here.. you got a nice blog buddy, great work :)

  6. Jakob Nielsen is the top and famous of them all.
    .-= Ron Leyba´s last blog ..Webthesurfi Rugs Webdesign =-.

  8. Bounce rate has being my major problem last year, I hope I will over come it this year. Thanks for sharing the website, I hope to learn from them.

  10. I am new to SEO and it was useful for me to hear that even if you rank high in search engines, there are ways to measure how many people actually click around your page. I will be using your suggestions of websites along with further SEO work to promote my website. Thanks!!!

  12. Good post, thanks for sharing, I enjoy it very much!

  14. Almost all the people around the world utilize the web because of its effectiveness. This is very easy to use as long as you know what to do and what not to do.

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