The first few seconds a reader has when first viewing your site can be the deciding factor of whether they hang around to read even the first few lines, a study has shown. In a report by the journal Behaviour and Information Technology it has shown that readers’ first impressions of a site closely tallied with their given impression even after a longer period of time on the site. The BBC news article goes on to show that decisions by the brain in the first 20 milliseconds can have much longer lasting effects on their opinion of the website, first impressions have a lasting impact.
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03.06
2005 was the Biggest Year of Web Growth
The BBC has reported on a study finding that the web has grown more in 2005 than it ever has before – even in the first dot com era.
The report, by monitoring firm Netcraft, shows that the web grew by more than 17 million sites in the period from January to October 2005. Beating the previous record in 1995 during the peak of the first internet boom. The report highlights the increase in small business maximising their sales potential by going online for the first time.
