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20%

20% -- percentage of text read per webpage for web users (2015)

2015  · appletoncreative.com

On the average web page, users only read about 20% of the text.

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20%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2015
Entity
web users
B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
appletoncreative.com Primary Tier C
http://appletoncreative.com/2015/09/30/september-blog-roundup/ ↗
Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2015 Channel: Common Crawl
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September Blog Roundup
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appletoncreative.com · Original study ↗

Cited in agency blog roundup; original research likely Nielsen Norman Group, not named in text

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web users: 20% percentage of text read per webpage. Source: appletoncreative.com (2015). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/webpage-text-read-percentage
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