Writing for an online content is way different from its print counter part. From both the view-point of a reader as well a writer it is really easy to say that there are some basic differences between the two as they are surfaced quite simply.
Web readers generally do not spend much time reading the content entirely. A complete scanning of the content is something quite uncommon in web readers and visitors. There are only a few elite literate groups who would take time in scanning the writing part completely.
Readers however irrespective of their level of intellect would spend grater time reading an article in the print media.
Website designers and researchers have studied the statistics and have concluded approximately with a data revealing the following
- About 17% of the web site users have stayed for less than 4 seconds.
- 4% of the users have been successful to stay in a site for as long as 10 minutes.
An analysis made further also showed that for longer pages viewers’ stability became irregular. Shorter content always made way for greater usage. Basically the pages containing such huge length content are mostly on terms and conditions or the privacy policy theme.
The usual speed considered for a human user reading web page content is 200 words /minute which is fair enough. This implies to a fact that visitors are able to view approximately 18% of the total content.
An average study on readers has revealed that only 50% of the 111 words content is read by a user. Well that may seem too negligible to you, but at times such small readership is capable enough for revenue generation.
