If you ask a variety of people how readable they find a typical web site, you'll receive almost uniform responses that many (or most) pages are difficult to rea

If you ask a variety of people how readable they find a typical web site, you'll receive almost uniform responses that many (or most) pages are difficult to read. Font size is a factor but there are many more factors, which I outline here: http://www.filterjoe.com/2009/03/25/filters-for-reading-on-the-web/ http://www.filterjoe.com/2009/03/25/filters-for-reading-on-t... and suggest solutions for web design here: http://www.filterjoe.com/2009/03/23/site-design-for-reading/ http://www.filterjoe.com/2009/03/23/site-design-for-reading/ A main theme of my site is how to read without distraction on the web. As has come up a number of times on Hacker News, the tools readable and readability are a terrific way to reformat web pages in order to make them more readable: http://www.filterjoe.com/2011/04/11/web-page-reformatting-services-readable-and-readability/ http://www.filterjoe.com/2011/04/11/web-page-reformatting-se... One last trick is to arrange a high pixel density monitor vertically and place it far away from your eyes. You can calculate the distance needed to attain the equivalent of a retina display: http://www.filterjoe.com/2011/02/26/the-best-monitor-setup-to-reduce-eye-fatigue-and-distraction/ http://www.filterjoe.com/2011/02/26/the-best-monitor-setup-t... Whether this makes a difference in terms of readership, conversions, etc. I have no idea. But the proliferation of tools in the past few years to help people read web content suggests that a lot of web users are struggling with reading web pages.