Five-seconds testing method
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The five-seconds testing method is a very effective way to understand how much information your website visitors can get in a short period. There is a lot of researches prove that users leave most websites in 3-5 seconds nowadays. To grab attention the content must be very clear, understandable and rememberable for the end-user.
Using the five-seconds testing method we can ask the target audience to explain what information do they get in a short period of time and what should be cleared out.
How to run the five-seconds testing method with Sharewell?
Create a new draft test and launch a test plan builder. In a list of tasks, types find the “Five seconds” task and click it to add to the test plan steps list.
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There is 3 main question you need to answer to run the successful five-seconds test:
1. What content you would like to test?
2. For how long users must see it to have a possibility to understand it?
3. What questions you should ask to get a whole picture?
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Let’s look at the Sharewell website header example. We have an image on the right that shows an example of user interface and the product description text on the left. The 5 seconds period is enough to fast read content from the left column, but how clear will it be for the end-user? We can ask the tester some details and explanations about the content and figure it out.
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The follow-up questions are a good tool to get inside the tester head without asking straight questions. Sharewell will aggregate the results, so you can easily understand if the content is clear for the majority.
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The test results page shows aggregated feedback in percentage, so as a list of answers and behavior per test participant. Using 30-80 participants for the test could be enough the get a clear picture. if the content is much more complex extend display duration to 10-15 seconds and recruit at least 80-100 participants to have good results spread.