April 9, 2010
Internet, April 9, 2010. Yandex unveils a new front page design. The new layout offers more space for personalization – users can add more widgets with all other gadgets grouped for a faster and easier access.
Now, the space right under the search bar offers all Yandex users an opportunity to view their local information, such as current time, weather, maps, train and plane times.
Every user can now choose what information they would like to see on Yandex’ front page and fill the vacant space on yandex.ru with their favorite widgets.
Although, as a rule, tweaking settings is not very popular among Yandex users, widgets proved to be a success. More than 10% of all Yandex users install widgets on Yandex’s front page. The most popular are news, jobs and sales widgets. So, in Saint Petersburg the most popular is LiveJournal’s «Otdam Darom» (Stuff for Free) widget, while the web users in Novosibirsk prefer «Jobs in Novosibirsk».
The new front page is well suited for high resolution screens. In contrast to the previous version, the new page stays centered without stretching to fill the browser window. This is the eleventh version of yandex.ru. All previous versions are available for viewing at company.yandex.ru/about/pages.
The redesigned yandex.ru has been tested for more than three weeks, which allowed the company’s team to make changes based on visitor stats and user feedback.
