About bread crumbs
Summary: Recent studies have shown that while the use of breadcrumb trails to navigate a website can be helpful, few users choose to utilize this method of navigation. This study investigates the effects of “mere exposure” and training on breadcrumb usage. Findings indicate that brief training on the benefits of breadcrumb usage resulted in more efficient search behavior.Â
Apple sticks their bread crumb, not in the footer, but at the bottom of the content on each page. Very interesting.
This study states that frequent users of a site tend to use a bread crumb more often than first time or novice users of a web site. I sort of thought this but have no research about our site other than watching people and learning from others that certain people do use the bread crumb.