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Do Most Readers Only Read Two Paragraphs of a Post?

reader facts on blogs only reading two paragraphsHere’s an interesting apparent fact I read recently for all my readers. Apparently most blog readers (around 90%) only read about two paragraphs in a regular post whether they are interested in the topic or not. I found this interesting as most of my posts on my blogs are well and truly more than that.

If this is true, does that mean bloggers should be designing our posts for the people who just skim read posts unless of course they are the unusual ones like myself who actually read peoples posts fully? By the online survey it read that most people will skim, pause at images, then read around them, then skim to the end picking up keywords. Should I be writing shorter posts I wonder, except for the fact how do get all my information into two paragraphs. Either way it certainly gives me something to ponder?


2 responses to “Do Most Readers Only Read Two Paragraphs of a Post?”

  1. Luca Di Nicola

    Hi Timon,
    With Twitter (micro blogging) becoming more and more popular it’s easy to understand why people are saying that they will skim posts. I still believe that a blog should give good and valuable content as yours does and make it as lengthy as neccesary. Of course it’s also O.K. to make short posts depending on the topic
    Keep up the great work