Table pagination best practices

Good Practices Of Pagination Design #

• Provide large clickable areas.
• Don't use underlines.
• Identify the current page.
• Space out page links.
• Provide Previous and Next links.
• Use First and Last links (where applicable)
• Put First and Last links on the outside.

1. What is best approach for pagination?
2. Should pagination be at the top or bottom?
3. Does pagination improve performance?
4. What is proper pagination?

What is best approach for pagination?

To make sure Google can crawl and index your paginated content, follow these best practices: Link pages sequentially. Use URLs correctly. Avoid indexing URLs with filters or alternative sort orders.

Should pagination be at the top or bottom?

Show first and last page upfront

Showing the last page number in pagination upfront makes it easier to know the limit of pagination for an end user.

Does pagination improve performance?

Thanks to pagination, we can split our large dataset into chunks ( or pages ) that we can gradually fetch and display to the user, thus reducing the load on the database. Pagination also solves a lot of performance issues both on the client and server-side!

What is proper pagination?

Pagination is simply a manner of ordering sequential pages which are contextually connected, to provide continuity to both users and search engines. It is accomplished by placing rel=“prev” and rel=“next” attributes in the head of each page in the series.