- Ethan Marcotte first coined the term responsive design.
- The first website was created in 1991.
- CSS was first proposed in October 1994.
- The average smartphone user will check their device up to 150 times per day.
- As of 2023, there are thought to be 5.19 billion active internet users worldwide.
- The average attention span decreased from 12 to 8 seconds.
- Demographics play a huge role in user behaviour and therefore web design.
- Users form an opinion about websites in .05 seconds.
- Website design is an important factor for determining credibility for almost half of visitors.
- 1 in 4 small businesses still don’t have websites.
- People will stop engaging with a website if the content or layout is unattractive.
- Google has indicated that website speed is one of the signals by its algorithms to rank pages
- Images and videos can be both good and bad.
- The average time spent on pages is 54 seconds, while blog posts an average of 3-5 minutes.
- Google prefers responsive sites.
- Every day approximately 10 million blog posts are put online.
- Have info about products/services on the homepage.
- Customer reviews are trusted as much as personal recommendations.
- Lists are better than large paragraphs.
- Visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load.
