Web reading pattern: F-shaped.

The Alertbox shares some of its test results where they tracked where a user's eyes go on a few set pages, including a corporate About Us page and a search engine results page.

It shows the user's eyes move in an F-shaped pattern, skipping over large tracts of content while hovering on items in a generally F-shaped pattern over the content.

Quote:
F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. In a few seconds, their eyes move at amazing speeds across your website’s words in a pattern that's very different from what you learned in school.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html

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