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Exercise three: website comparison

Last updated on June 26, 2025

This exercise shows how plain language affects what people notice, remember, and find useful.

Exercise instructions

Open each website link in a new window or tab, but don’t look at the pages yet:

For each page:

  1. Set a timer for 10 seconds
  2. View the page
  3. Hide the page from view and write down everything you remember about what was on it

Record your answers

Use the exercise files to record your answers as you work through the course.

You can download each exercise individually or a single file containing all of the exercises in the course:

Review and continue

When you're done, go to exercise three takeaways.