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It is an interesting one, I think a lot of people are really just after article length and reading times is easier to approach than a word count!
Reading time is generally words / 200.
I recently released a massive article and someone commented that the read time stopped them reading it and put them off. What I am not sure is did the long read time encourage some people to read it?
I did find this article martech.org/estimated-reading-time... which seems to suggest there is some science behind having the reading time, but I only skim read it and haven’t fact checked it so take it with a pinch of salt!
For me, on programming sites, reading time is pointless as I could spend 10 minutes examining a code snippet or I could skip them altogether so the accuracy is questionable at best!
It is an interesting one, I think a lot of people are really just after article length and reading times is easier to approach than a word count!
Reading time is generally words / 200.
I recently released a massive article and someone commented that the read time stopped them reading it and put them off. What I am not sure is did the long read time encourage some people to read it?
I did find this article martech.org/estimated-reading-time... which seems to suggest there is some science behind having the reading time, but I only skim read it and haven’t fact checked it so take it with a pinch of salt!
For me, on programming sites, reading time is pointless as I could spend 10 minutes examining a code snippet or I could skip them altogether so the accuracy is questionable at best!
I actually read your article. And the 68 minutes read time definitely intrigued me rather than put me off.
Thanks for the link I’ll give it a read