How to Check Your Website is User Friendly?

Si Thu Phyo
Newbiesbox
Published in
3 min readMay 2, 2016

Everybody want their website to be “User Friendly”. Although it is logical goal, user friendly is difficult task in real life. So, to get a user friendly website, you should check the following tips. In this article, I will point how to make a user friendly website.

  1. Responsive Design

Is your website fully responsive? Nowadays, mobile usage is rapidly growing over the world so that your website should be responsive in order to get user satisfaction. No one wants to look with desktop version in their mobile devices.

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2. Website Performance

Is your website performance fast? No one wants to wait if your website loading time is longer than 4sec to 6sec. Check your website performance at GTmetrix, Pingdom or Google PageSpeed. After checking website performance, you should read carefully their suggestion and make some improvements. Check this two articles: Speed Up Your Website and CloudFlare CDN Setup. These two articles will help you to get better website performance.

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3. Navigation

Navigation is also important for your visitors. Navigation should be clean and easy to understand so that visitors can browse quickly. There are many styles of navigation such as horizontal, vertical, hamburger menu, etc. To optimize navigation styles, use different style for desktop view and mobile view.

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4. Typography

Use clean typography for better user reading experience. Don’t use complex fonts. Adjust appropriate text size and contrast to make better looking experience. Don’t use special font style. No one isn’t interesting your font style. And special font styles make your website to slow performance and it is useless.

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5. Quality Content

Content is essential ingredient for a website success. Visitors come to your website for content. If you have no content or bad content, your website will get less interest and loss of traffic. So, make a great quality content for your website. Content must be right and useful for visitors. If you contents are good for visitors, your website traffic will increase day by days. But you must provide quality content timely. You must know content is a king.

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6. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Your website should be well done for SEO. Site ranking in search engines is very important for startup website or business website. New visitors can’t remember your website address. So, you should well optimized focus keywords, contents and titles. It will benefit your visitors to search easily through search engines website like as Google, Bing or others.

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Conclusion

There are many ways to optimize website to user friendly, now I pointed the basic tips and tricks for newbies. Each tips has different widely concepts and you can learn on the internet. Be enjoyable user friendly website. Cheers!……

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Si Thu Phyo
Newbiesbox

I’m a WordPress developer and trainer of Web Development Class at Myanmar Tech Wave. Founder of newbiesbox.com and love in writing and playing Kyokushin karate.