Translations:Reading/Web/Accessibility for reading/Repository/Readability research report/16/en

Most readers are reading Wikipedia for less than a minute. The median reading time is 25 seconds and the 75th percentile is 75.1 seconds. This is consistent with the Reading Wikipedia finding that people are often scanning for specific pieces of information.$1 In a survey of 2500 people in Nigeria and Kenya, readers tend to skim or scan articles for particular information about current events, specific people, or school assignments. Readers tend to skim or scan Wikipedia to find specific information or to get the general gist of something. For these casual readers who make up the vast majority of readers on Wikipedia, the wikis are places to begin a search for information quickly, not the end destination for in-depth, line-by-line reading.