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The Stanford Poynter Project Study

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-your-eyes-don't-go dept.

sredding writes: "The Stanford Poynter Project has some interesting conclusions after a study of Internet news readers. 'Two years ago Stanford University and The Poynter Institute researchers began collaborating to learn how frequent Internet news readers went about perusing news online.' It's an interesting read for Web designers." Cool info and interesting statistics, especially the one about how people jump for text first, not pictures. Take that, Mosaic! Lynx forever! ;)

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  1. Self dilusion by SuperguyA1 · · Score: 4

    You know... for a sight claiming that the eye jumps for text first they have an awefully big
    picture with an awfully small sidebar of text.

    --
    "as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee" - Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz. (One man's humorous is another mans flamebait)
  2. I told you so!!! by dustpuppy · · Score: 5
    Where do eyes go initially after firing up the first screenful of online news? To text, most likely. Not to photos or graphics, as you might expect.

    Ha!! I told you so. I go to read the articles at playboy.com, not look at the pictures :)