The arrival of web-first publications

HTML works better than PDFs in the mobile age

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During the past decade, central banks have reduced the number of printed copies of their publications or even stopped printing altogether. Instead, providing publications in portable document format (PDF) has emerged as standard practice on the majority of central bank websites. Based on the usage behaviours we see in our web analytics, however, this might not be the best approach going forward.1

PDF is not ideal in a mobile world

While on a normal business day, mobile usage of the Bank for

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