Sliders, a series of pictures that scroll automatically, are used on many sites to get multiple images on a home page in a small amount of space. Do sliders help your website or hurt it?

Thijs de Valk, behavioral scientist in the Yoast organization, creators of the Yoast SEO plugin and other WordPress products, recently wrote a post on the Yoast.com blog giving evidence for harm done by sliders. He suggests that there’s harm to usability, harm to SEO and harm to the site’s professional image when sliders are used.

That’s not just his opinion. He includes quotes from many experts who give examples of how they improved results by changing or eliminating sliders.

In summary, de Valk says, “It’s not often that science is conclusive in their findings. However, sliders (sometimes named carousels) seem to be one topic on which it is. There’s literally not one study that I’ve found that says sliders are a good idea.”

You can read the whole article here: Our themes don’t have sliders… Because sliders suck..

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