The Usability of Persistent and non-Persistent Headers on Web Pages

Pietro Murano, Petter Kongshaug

2024

Abstract

Websites are used for many different purposes and can also be designed in different ways with different styles. Certain website designs use persistent headers, while some alternatively use non-persistent headers. Online guidelines give ideas on how these are best used. However, there is no published systematic study investigating the performance and user satisfaction of these types of headers. In this paper we present an empirical experiment where persistent headers are compared with non-persistent headers. Two prototype news websites varied only in terms of their headers were developed and used in the experiment. The basic results suggest that persistent headers are more usable, particularly on a slightly larger screen. The analysis indicated that performance and user satisfaction are increased with the use of persistent headers on websites.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Murano P. and Kongshaug P. (2024). The Usability of Persistent and non-Persistent Headers on Web Pages. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-692-7, SciTePress, pages 348-356. DOI: 10.5220/0012554900003690

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis24,
author={Pietro Murano and Petter Kongshaug},
title={The Usability of Persistent and non-Persistent Headers on Web Pages},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS},
year={2024},
pages={348-356},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012554900003690},
isbn={978-989-758-692-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS
TI - The Usability of Persistent and non-Persistent Headers on Web Pages
SN - 978-989-758-692-7
AU - Murano P.
AU - Kongshaug P.
PY - 2024
SP - 348
EP - 356
DO - 10.5220/0012554900003690
PB - SciTePress