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Do people use back to top links?
Some websites have links like Go To Bottom or Go To Top.
It seems like this technique has fallen out of style. Are there good reasons not to provide these kinds of links? Please provide references.
Answer
Reason 1: Your site will look like it's not been touched since 1996.
Reason 2: It will mean that your pages are far too long, if users can't just scroll to the top or bottom.
And Reason 3:
Jakob Nielsen
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Jakob's answer: Yes, "return to top" can be avoided, because the exact same functionality is provided by simply dragging the scrollbar to the top of the page. It's almost always better to rely on a single, generic interaction technique so that users don't have to ponder the choice between two alternate interaction techniques for the same goal. The time it takes to make the decision is usually more than the time saved by the shortcut. (The exception would be for extremely long pages that would take forever to scroll, but such pages should be avoided in the first place.)
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