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Have you thought about whether removing the pagination would cause an even high percentage of your readers to read the full article? And if the percentage who
by jsdalton 17y ago
Have you thought about whether removing the pagination would cause an even high percentage of your readers to read the full article?
And if the percentage who click to page two is in fact so large, have you considered how much more satisfied those same visitors would be if you removed an obstacle that so many of them confront every time they read an article?
- eli 17y agoBy default we do not paginate, but sometimes I think it makes sense. Personally, I don't like the way it looks when there is very long text on a single page. All the navigation links at the top and sides are scrolled way off the screen and the user is adrift in sea of text. (I admit part of this is a limitation in our design. Perhaps all the blocks of HTML in the sidebar should repeat for the full length of the page?) I'd be very interested in testing paginate/non-paginate, but I'm not sure there's in easy way to measure "satisfaction." Perhaps a javascript hack that detects if they've scrolled to the bottom of the page?
- billswift 17y agoI don't think headers scrolling off the screen is a significant problem for anyone; all you need do is hit the HOME button and you're right back at the top. Actually, a bigger problem is wanting to follow a link in the middle of a long story after you finished the story. Maybe people should copy links that appear within a story at the top or bottom of the page so a reader doesn't have to go scrolling back through the story to find it again.