Check out google labs browser size app. It shows what percentage of people can see the parts of your page. I'm not sure how they got the data, I don't think browsers report their size, do they? Well anyway, for whatever its worth it may help you quantify your fold issue.
http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of R. Groot > Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 2:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IxDA Discuss] How real and valuable is "above the fold" > realestate? > > First off: all the best wishes for this new year. Lets make it a usable > one. > > -- Situation sketch -- > Some clients (as well as some graphic designers) I work with still talk > about "above the fold" real estate. They seem to see this as a somewhat > measurable space (in pixels) and tribute a lot of value to it. Now I > know > that with a (Google) search only the top 3-5 results are actually > clicked. > And scrolling down to the 100th result on the page is scarce. > > -- My questions -- > But how does this apply to content sites and/or applications? > Does everything need to be as far to the top of the page as possible? > And where does the fold start (in pixels, on avarage)? > Do you still design with "the fold" in mind? > > -- > Kind regards, > Rein Groot > ---------------------------------------------------------- > LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/reingroot > Twitter: www.twitter.com/rein_groot > Portfolio: www.reingroot.nl/portfolio > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
