What is web usability?

Web usability is about making your website user-friendly and easy to use by your visitors. A website will be considered user-friendly if visitors can navigate intuitively on the website, understand your message immediately and easily find what they’re looking for (which should never be more than 3 clicks away).

Sites with high usability are regarded by users as informative, useful and easy to navigate. This gives them a positive user-experience and encourages them to come back again.

These are the most important factors for a user-friendly website:

  • Easy navigation and clear orientation (user finds its way on the website easily)
  • Uncomplicated text, easy to understand (wording)
  • Relevant content, clearly arranged on the site (Headings, titles, etc)
  • Text adapted to different reader types (scanning, detail reading, etc)

Along with content and page layout, usability is a key factor for the success of your website.

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7 Responses to “What is web usability?”

  1. my website is made with apple software (i.web) and has no visible place to put your counter – is there someway you could design a counter for apple users?

  2. mca says:

    @annet stirling:

    In iWeb you can select Insert -> HTML Snippet from the menu and insert the counter code there.

  3. Marine says:

    Ya habia oido de esto y creo que es cierto hasta es más opino que deberia reducirse a 2 clicks.

  4. anansi says:

    this is a great find for me! i can create my own forum? wow!!! thanks a lot for this!

  5. DominicT says:

    These are the problems I normally face on most websites, but when it came to my own site, I never gave it a second thought! Thanks

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