Do you ever wonder how much text you should put on your web pages? Recently I read where the average person reads about 6 words per second. That would mean a page with 250 words would take 42 seconds to read and a web page with 500 words would take 1 minute 23 seconds to read. This is not taking into account how much of the content a person may retain.

This should definitely make you want to reduce the number of text words on each web page  Using graphic images and/or embedding a short video clip may also help readers to more quickly get the point of your page without having to read every word. Text on a web page is important, but not to the point of becoming overwhelming to the your readers who may be looking for a quick answer.