Comments on: Usability of Pagination Links

By: Cubic zirconia

Cubic zirconia — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:20:58 +0000

I agree to the reformulate #6. And that is also right users always focus on first results. But I doubt that the theory that people narrow their search until what they look for are in the top results. Actually the hypothesis are based on the premise that all user are search engine savvy and the serps always are the best possible results. I am afraid both are not sufficient enough. It is not so user-friendly way if treating users as robots. Googlebot can not replace human being when it comes to intuiton. Sometimes I search for somthing and use all keywords I could think of, but the top serps just did not show what I need. So I have to browse them page by page. I know this is crazy but I have no idea what else I can do at all.

By: Pagination Patterns and Losing Time in Facebook - eri on the interweb

Pagination Patterns and Losing Time in Facebook - eri on the interweb — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:33:07 +0000

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By: Entaprise Entertainment

Entaprise Entertainment — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:31:12 +0000

I think there should be a limit to this endless scroll idea. I love long pages, not having to click to the next page, but there should be a cap. It’s freaking annoying to use a little scrollbar, being so sensitive. Therefore, I support Google’s preference option to list 100 search results. It’s much easier for me to find what I want if I have more options up front. Clicking to different pages of listings just discourages me.

By: Francisco

Francisco — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:57:41 +0000

The sad thing is how this very good practices (for the web) have been migrated in to enterprise systems, for example, think of an inventory system for a state government, let say they have around 500,000 different things in inventory, and you search for anything that begins with “a”, the result is going to be around 50,000… what is the advantage of pagination here? do we seriously thing that the user is going to spend 3 days reading page by page until he founds what he is looking for?

I think pagination is one of those overused stuff that migrated from system that work with un-structured data (like Google) an in to systems that work with structured data (based on RDBMS) and that really do not make sense in the structured world, if you are getting more search result than you can read in under 1 o 2 minutes that that pretty much means that your search is not specific enough. Why bother implementing pagination then?. It seems to be a psychological thing we, as developers “like” the idea of offering “freedom” to the user, and the user likes that “freedom”, if you remove the paginator they will complain because they do not see it, even if they always find the search results after the first page useless.

By: newer phones

newer phones — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:24:14 +0000

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By: Clean Red Widgets

Clean Red Widgets — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:32:47 +0000

That graph is very accurate compared to the way that I search for things also, if I cant find what I am searching for within the first ten results I will change up my wording for a new search. Images is a whole different thing though I will browse through search results forever until I find what I am looking for.

By: Diseño

Diseño — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:19:12 +0000

Really an useful post, now and thanks to this I plain better my site structure and I made a few days ago an experiment with different possibilities, one using “endless scroll” and other with pagination links. In a few weeks I will see results and comment here. Thanks for share.

By: Contratipo

Contratipo — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:03:42 +0000

Great article!
Congratulations Jesper!

By: Watches Store

Watches Store — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:41:35 +0000

An excellent post, and one that many will have an opinion on. I suppose it comes down to what works best on your own site, rather than on others, and that means either split testing different methods, or testing each over a period of 2-3 months. On some of my sites 1,2,3 is is good enough, but on the forums I need to list to at least 6, and this has proven itself over the years with feedback.

By: Tomelloso

Tomelloso — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:00:21 +0000

“endless” scroll may be best option and look nice, I must use this in my next web project.
Use more that 3 links like tell hagoleshet can be useful to help search spiders but actually think that for this is better and more important add the site to webmaster tools in searches.