Many Gannett newspaper sites now split long articles up onto multiple pages. However, if you look at the page’s source code, it actually loads the entire article in your browser but splits it into several divs, showing you only one at a time.

There is no benefit to the reader by doing this. From a readability standpoint, subheads splitting up the text into chunks would work much better. I assume the reason for it is to get multiple page views for a single article.

Reclaim the user experience

Thanks to Web browser add-ons, Web site users can modify the way Web pages are displayed. We can then show all of the article’s divs at once without having to click to see the next one.

Download the Gannett newspaper site anti-pagination user style here.

It requires either (a) the Firefox browser with either the Stylish or Greasemonkey add-ons, or (b) the Opera browser. It’s free.

Reporter Meranda Watling has written more about the pagination issue.

The fix works on these sites. If you would like more Gannett sites added to it, please let me know by leaving a comment here.