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(from Jakob Nielsen)

"Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold."

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html

The article includes the results of an eyetracking study, and a few examples of viewing patterns where people did spend a lot of time below the fold.



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