Thursday, December 17, 2009

How visitors see your website, Browser Size explained

Google is launching interesting things for webmasters from time to time. The latest thing, I check today was Browser Size.
Okay, you may read the article but didn't understand what it means from the first read.

I'll summarize it. Google wants to help you get maximum profit from your website; profit means conversion and conversion implies that your users uses your site correctly and as you want them to.

Google did collect data using sample data from visitors to Google.com, they have enough data to reflect the average users screen size. They can after that publish a report with hundered or thousands of number, or just the overall of browser sizes, but they did something simpler, easier and more suitable for web designer.

Using Browser Size lab, you can know which parts of your site are mostly seen by your users. The page is seperated by lines, each part has a percentage; for example the upper-left part has a 99% percentage. This means, only 99% of your visitoes see this part.

Now it's time to test your website against this tool, enter your URL and press Go, then see which parts are important, but less seen. Great tool to increase conversion rate, if you are new to web design or don't won't to get involved on it a lot.

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