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The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon
darthcamaro writes "How many times did you click the 'Back' button in your browser last week? According to a new study from Mozilla, it's likely that you clicked 'Back' a whole lot. 'Across Windows, Mac and Linux 93.1 percent of users clicked the button at least once over the course of a five-day period. In total the study reported that users clicked on the back button 66 times over the course of five days. The next most used button is the 'Reload' button with 73.2 percent usage and 22 clicks on average per user over five days. Other areas of the main window that were heavily used include the Search Bar where users input search queries. The study found that 67.9 percent of users used the Search Bar for an average of nearly 16 clicks per user over the course of five days.'"
Old news. This is why they made it bigger in 3.0.
Just using Mozilla Test Piliot add-on.
How exactly could you know the answer to your query? Well by RTFA of course!
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
Depends on what they want to test. Here is a list so far: https://testpilot.mozillalabs.com/testcases/
Screen real estate is valuable, and knowing how often buttons are used tells you which ones to make easily accessible and which ones can be buried.
When it comes to UI's, "most clicked" should absolutely be equated to "most valuable". Doing otherwise could result in a horrid design where the simplest tasks require very convoluted and excessive steps.
Since the study was made with a Firefox plugin, I think you'll find that 100% of the Windows, Mac and Linux users in the study use Firefox.
"Total destruction the only solution" - Bob Marley
My hypothesis was that our eyes were just drawn to any graphic at the top left, no matter what it was, and so we'd click on it.
I have a Google Adwords block on my personal website. Up until a month ago, the ad had been on the top right corner of the screen. I was playing around and moved it to the top left.
From January 1 to June 1, I had x hits, y clicks, and made $z in ad income.
From June 1 to July 1, I had almost exactly x/5 hits; I served 1.03 times more hits during that month than I had per average in the last five months. I also had .54*y clicks that month, or 2.71 times as many clicks per average month. Finally, I earned 1.42*$z last month, or 7.11 times per month as much as during the first five months. Of the top 20 highest-earning days in the last 5 years, 6 were in the last month.
Let me repeat that: changing almost nothing but the ad placement from top-right to top-left increased my click-through rate 171% and my monthly ad income by 611%, on almost the exact same number of hits.
Yeah, I'd have to agree with you.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
With Mouse Gestures Redox you just have to hold the right mouse button and click the left one.