reading a webpage isn't exactly like
reading a book web pages can have a lot
of information and most of the time you
don't need to read all of it it can
sometimes be challenging to find just
the information you need without getting
overwhelmed with everything else on the
page in this video we're going to go
over some basic tips to help you read
web pages more quickly and more
effectively first you'll need to locate
the main content since that's where the
most relevant information will usually
be sometimes much of the page is taken
up by ads site navigation and social
media plugins but for now try to
mentally block those parts out and just
focus on the main content instead of
reading word by word skim the page to
find just the information that you're
looking for one way to do this is to
just read the first sentence of each
paragraph until you get to something
that looks relevant some articles have
headings before each section and you can
use those to help you skim faster if a
heading doesn't sound relevant simply
skip down to the next one for example if
I'm only interested in laptop security I
don't need to read any of the other
sections in this article if you really
want to speed up your web browsing you
can get your browser to search a page
for you using the ctrl F shortcut just
hold down the ctrl key or the command
key if you're using a Mac and then press
F and a search box will appear just
above the page or just below it
depending on your browser then type the
word or phrase that you're looking for
and let's say I'm only interested in
apps that are free and if your browser
finds a match it will skip to that part
of the page if the word appears more
than once
you can press ENTER and your browser
will find the next match now earlier I
said to mentally block out everything
except the main content but now you may
want to focus on the site's navigation
bar in search box these are useful when
you found a great website but the page
you're looking at isn't quite what
you're looking for you can use the
navigation bar to browse through the
site or if the site has a search box you
can just type what you're looking for
click search and then see if any of the
results look relevant
sometimes you may get to a site where
you're not really finding anything
useful if that happens you can use your
browser's back button to go to the
previous page or you can close the
window or tab that you have open if you
started with a Google search you can
look at some of the other results or you
can start a new search with different
search terms of course once you've found
a page with a lot of good information
you may want to spend more time there
and give it a more thorough read