Google has launched an addition to Google Trends that allows to follow trends in website traffic. Google Trends for Websites shows visual comparisons of actual popularity of websites based on daily unique visitors. You have to log in to see data. A critical review here.

Luke Wroblewski’s new book Web Form Design: Filling In the Blanks comes with illustrations that are freely available on Flickr. More over here.

SEO 2.0 has an interesting post on the concept of findability. Aarron Walter:

Once upon a time in a web design agency, there lived a sad little boy named Findability. He was a very good boy with a big heart for helping people find the websites they seek, find content within websites, and rediscover valuable content they’d found.

UK-based web design company Message carries out an online survey which aims to answer some fundamental questions about usability on the web. The company found that ideas about what constitutes ‘readable’ text are based on tried-and-tested rules from the world of print. The survey is aimed at building a statistical picture on the subject.