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Some article websites (I'm looking at msn.com right now, as an example) show the first page or so of article content and then have a "Continue Reading" button, which you must click to see the rest of the article. This seems so ridiculous, from a UX perspective--I know how to scroll down to continue reading, so why hide the text and make me click a button, then have me scroll? Why has this become a fairly common practice?

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[–] [email protected] 154 points 10 months ago (37 children)

Web Manager here. Some good answers here. Let me add a few more.

Engagement. If you land on a page and don't engage on the page and leave, Google doesn't even count you as a User. The more things you do on the page, Google will rank you higher.

Data analysts: we are testing if the article is valuable or not. If nobody is clicking continue, we know that we might need to rework the article.

Page load: The biggest and I mean biggest reason someone leaves a page is page load speed. If you're deep in researching some information, regardless of your internet speed or if the fault is on the user side and your page load is over 3 seconds, you will leave the site. Loading only 1/4 of the page helps with this along with other tricks like caching at the CDN and lazy loading.

There are tons more reasons, but we found that with the "Continue" button, it wasn't detrimental to the site performance.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

That's funny, I always thought 'continue reading' was a paywall button going to a subscription page and just back right out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then the article isn't strong enough and will be rewritten. The more relevant it is in your search, the higher chance you will continue reading.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure you understand me. I assumed that the continue reading button would ask me to pay and since I am not going to pay I never continued reading.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Ahhh, I think you might be an edge case. The users we tested this on all understood what was going to happen after.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I also back out of pages that have this, for the same reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'm part of your edge case too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've also assumed the same. There's no way it's a rare enough edge case not to be impactful

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