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another option may be a trail indicating the site’s prime architecture, regardless of the visitor’s path throughout the site. The latter option, along with other navigation cues, may be better in helping site visitors form a mental model of the site
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It is probably not worth the effort to include breadcrumbs unless you can show that your Web site’s users use them frequently, either to navigate the site, or to understand the site’s hierarchy.
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The rationale for the arrows instead of colons or other indicators was because “the arrows seem to be slightly easier to understand as an indication of moving deeper and deeper into the site.”
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Rogers and Chaparro (2003) found that the most effective use of breadcrumbs occurred when the trail was placed below the page title instead of above it at the top of the page.
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Research indicates that those who would most benefit are frequent users who spend a lot of time on a site and who have had some instruction in the usefulness of the breadcrumbs.