Want to know what percentage of your users see that "buy now" or subscribe button? If you're selling something, you should be interested in that. If you sell or buy advertising on a blog, you'd want the advertising to be seen by majority of the visitors too.
Whatever the most important element on your page is, you want to make sure it is above the fold, which means what the user sees when they first enter the page. So no scrolling or anything.
Because many users leave if they don't see anything interesting, check that your call to action or something eye-catching is in that first view. And with that, Google's new browser size tool will help you.
Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google. For example, the "90%" contour means that 90% of people visiting Google have their browser window open to at least this size or larger. - How browser size tool works
With this tool you can ensure that majority of your visitors see the most important parts of the page. If a important element, like "buy now" button is only visible to 80% of the visitor, that means 20% of the visitors cannot see it when they first enter your page.
It's free and it's very easy to use: Just enter your URL at http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ and you'll see nice visual like this:
Browser Size tool will show you what your visitors see when they enter your website, depending on their screen / browser size. The tool shows what percentage of the users (on average) see what.
For example from the picture we can see that ~90% of the visitors to this blog see the "follow me on Twitter" button, but only about 80% of the visitors see the whole RSS Subscribe icon.
Check out the Browser Size tool at: http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/
Here's hoping this will help you find the right place for the most important elements on your blog and perhaps gain extra subscribers, or even better, more sales because of checking the design.
Source and more information: Google Code Blog - Introducing Google Browser Size
15 comments.
Aweosme! I didn’t know there was such a tool! Used to be, we designed sites at 800x600px, but with the larger screens and people switching to higher resolutions we’ve been able to up that a bit and fit more on a screen.
Thanks for sharing!
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Just updated the source to the post, forgot that as I was so excited when I found it :)
It’s a brand new tool, announced on the Google Code blog on just a couple of days ago.
This is a very nice tool, especially since my monitor is an abnormal size.
What’s an abnormal size? Lol! My PC monitor is 20 inches while my lap top in 13 inches.
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Wow, I did not know about this tool. I normally use a Firefox toolbar resize tool. With Google Analytics’s that says majority of readers to my site use 1024×768 resolution. But this will prove helpful.
Thanks
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I’ve been using FF addons before too. But I like the visuals of this tool
And it’s very quick to check a site with this one and take a screenshot to be used as reference when improving the design.
This is very handy, Antti
Great for designing your page layout.
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I am first time visiting your blog. I tried that browser size tool.. Its really interesting. Definitely i will wait for reading your upcoming articles.
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Welcome Deepika and thanks for taking the time to leave a comment :)
I tend to write long and in-depth posts, but it’s refreshing to write quick posts like this. Browser Size Tool might come handy one day and it makes a good reference for ensuring the right things are above the fold.
Can you give a link to this FF add-on?
Are you sure I don't need special glasses for this tool? LOL
Seriously though, a very handy tool. Up to now, every once in a while I just send a handful of emails to friends asking what they can see…not very efficient to say the least.
Here's the Window Resizer addon I've been using on Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...
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