{"id":18,"date":"2009-05-04T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T23:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2019-05-29T10:01:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:01:58","slug":"the-five-second-usability-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/the-five-second-usability-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Second Usability Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One\u00a0great and extremely inexpensive method for testing the usability of a website is Jared Spool&#8217;s 5-second Test.<\/p>\n<p>The test is very simple.\u00a0 Show a page to a group of people for five seconds and then have them rate an aspect of the website on a scale from 1 to 5.\u00a0 The purpose is to see how effective a web page is at conveying a message in the shortest amount of time.\u00a0 With only five seconds, the user will only be able to quickly scan the web page for what stands out the most.<\/p>\n<p>For example, you could display your contact us page to a test group for 5 seconds and then ask them &#8220;Does the website offer a satisfactory number of methods for contacting support?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n      {\n        \"@context\": \"http:\/\/schema.org\",\n        \"@type\": \"NewsArticle\",\n\t\"dateModified\": \"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/r\/day\/2019\/5\/29\",\n\t\"mainEntityOfPage\": \"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/04\/the-five-second-usability-test\/\",\n\"author\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Person\",\n    \"name\": \"Jeff Lew\"\n  },\n   \"publisher\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Organization\",\n    \"name\": \"Numinix Web Developers\",\n    \"logo\": {\n      \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n      \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/images\/banner_hero_clarity.png\"\n    }\n    },\n        \"headline\": \"The Five Second Usability Test\",\n        \"datePublished\": \"2008-05-01T16:00:41Z\",\n        \"image\": [\n          \"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/C560BAQFjWJ-r6HLAfQ\/company-logo_200_200\/0?e=2159024400&v=beta&t=KzCK1BdfCM48zSzjZ6lsxOsr7sfO0_EVarvyFHWW6H8\"\n        ]\n      }\n    <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick and inexpensive usability test recommended by Jared Spool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26,25,28,639,27],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usability","tag-jared-spool","tag-method","tag-test","tag-test-group","tag-usability","tag-usability-test"],"modified_by":"Numinix Developer","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}