10 Easy Ways to Make Your Website Easier to Use

Pure Practical episode (quick episode/ just the meat & potatoes) ✓ Text to image ratio – Ensure you’re not hitting them with wall-of-text ✓ Content legibility – 800 px across, 19 pt font, line-height to space out text vertically. ✓ Adding bullet points and headings to key pages ✓ Page speed - Optimize your site to load 2 seconds or less - Gzip in htacess. ✓ Amplify a few important call-to-actions, play the others down.. user testing example: stop asking me if I have any questions. ✓ Swap out your stock images for your own in commonly accessed places on your site, don’t put text in images. ✓ Make sure your header and footer, - your main navigation systems on the site are consistent and provide an easy route to next steps. ✓ Consider a prominent search feature ✓ TLDR up at the top of articles… bigger first sentence, and author information. (E-A-T and how that effects search) ✓ Trust and familiarity. This is where testimonials, badges and other trust factors are important. But also consider making sure that your site feels familiar with the concept of ‘prototypicality’ - don’t make it different just to make it different. How can you make your site feel a little bit more like something they’ve seen before and know how to interact with.