Translations:Reading/Web/Accessibility for reading/Repository/Readability research report/35/en

Eye tracking studies also found that when readers want to get the general gist of an article rather than specific fact, they use a [$1 "layer cake" scanning pattern]. Unlike the [$2 F-pattern], which is the standard in-depth reading pattern, the layer cake is a pattern where readers scan the section headers quickly down a page in order to glean the salient details of an article before diving deeper into one particular section to find what they're looking for. In the layer cake pattern, a reader's eyes jump between headings and sections, which makes this pattern a more efficient way to get through a large amount of content than reading every line carefully.