All The Young (edu)Punks » tab management in browsers http://www.robotvsrobot.com Jon K. - drunk on electrons Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:37:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Open/Shut Tabs? http://www.robotvsrobot.com/2009/11/10/openshut-tabs/ http://www.robotvsrobot.com/2009/11/10/openshut-tabs/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:24:18 +0000 Jon K. http://www.robotvsrobot.com/?p=208 ]]> Mozilla's study of how people use the web recently released the results of the tab open/close study. Some interesting things here related to user experience and how people use the web. The study concludes that most people have 5 or less tabs open at a time. Which means that we probably are multitasking when we are online. Sourcing information and producing content will require a couple of tabs at least (and if you're like me, probably upwards of 20).  Another interesting finding from the data:

If the default tab is a different site from the closed tab, the user is around 77% likely to stay on the default tab for at least 5 seconds; but if the default tab is on the same site, this probability climbs to about 85%.

Which speaks to stickiness, a concept that web designers and marketers are well aware of - keeping people at your site is key. It would be interesting to see how this relates to e-learning sites alone - what people are leaving LMS's for (mostly resources like Google I suspect)?

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