Tools. Here's How People Look at Your Facebook Profile. When potential dates, employers and friends glance at your online social profiles, what do they see?
EyeTrackShop, a startup that runs eye-tracking studies for advertisers, helped Mashable find out by applying its technology to the profile pages of popular social networks. The study used the webcams of 30 participants to record their eye movements as they were shown profile pages from Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, Klout, Reddit, Digg, Tumblr, Twitter, StumbleUpon and Pinterest at 10-second intervals. What participants looked at on each page and in what order is recorded in the images below. It's not a perfect study.
Thirty is a small sample size, and what draws attention on a profile likely varies depending on the content displayed.