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> Responsive web designers know that on many sites, as few as 20% of visitors will bother to scroll down. Is this really an "understood" truth? In our own stud

> Responsive web designers know that on many sites, as few as 20% of visitors will bother to scroll down. Is this really an "understood" truth? In our own study for our own site, we found nearly everyone scrolled the page all the time, and that seems the be the case with every colleague I've ever talked to as well. Who goes to a page and says, "fuck it, that scroll wheel is just way too damned difficult"?

ricardobeat 14y ago
No idea where they got that number, or what a "responsive designer" is (answers phone calls quickly?). This myth has been debunked long ago.
- Spooky23 14y ago
  A responsive designer in this context is somebody who designs webpages to scale to screen width. So the same codebase services smartphones and 1900x1200 browser windows. The thing that is puzzling to me is the whole thing about people scrolling & responsive design. How do you design something to avoid scrolling when your layout is designed to accommodate any screen size? It seems like those concepts are in conflict.
- villek 14y ago
  Link to the source (http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/ http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/) is in the comments. However, as the author admits in the comments (after being corrected by a reader), he has interpreted the results of the source incorrectly. The cited report actually only says that "Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold."
  - dhimes 14y ago
    That could be because we tend to put the most important stuff above the fold. They analyzed real websites that (we would think) would tend to do that. My guess is: if you capture their curiosity, they will scroll. Otherwise, they probably won't. Simple, I know, but I'm going with it.
passionfruit 14y ago
I have been surprised to observe the number of older people who still click on the up and down arrows in order to scroll. Moving the cursor onto the scroll arrows takes precision and for someone with poor mouse skills is even more difficult.
- Houshalter 14y ago
  Using the keyboard shortcuts is just faster and more convenient if you don't have a scroll wheel.

ricardobeat 14y ago

No idea where they got that number, or what a "responsive designer" is (answers phone calls quickly?). This myth has been debunked long ago.

Spooky23 14y ago
A responsive designer in this context is somebody who designs webpages to scale to screen width. So the same codebase services smartphones and 1900x1200 browser windows. The thing that is puzzling to me is the whole thing about people scrolling & responsive design. How do you design something to avoid scrolling when your layout is designed to accommodate any screen size? It seems like those concepts are in conflict.
villek 14y ago
Link to the source (http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/ http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/) is in the comments. However, as the author admits in the comments (after being corrected by a reader), he has interpreted the results of the source incorrectly. The cited report actually only says that "Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold."
- dhimes 14y ago
  That could be because we tend to put the most important stuff above the fold. They analyzed real websites that (we would think) would tend to do that. My guess is: if you capture their curiosity, they will scroll. Otherwise, they probably won't. Simple, I know, but I'm going with it.

passionfruit 14y ago

I have been surprised to observe the number of older people who still click on the up and down arrows in order to scroll. Moving the cursor onto the scroll arrows takes precision and for someone with poor mouse skills is even more difficult.

Houshalter 14y ago
Using the keyboard shortcuts is just faster and more convenient if you don't have a scroll wheel.