# Part 2: Use Good Headings For Structure And Scanning

DevFeed: [Part 2: Use Good Headings For Structure And Scanning](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/part-2-use-good-headings-for-structure-and-scanning-30772.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2023/part-2-use-good-headings-and-structure>)

Author: Anila Zaidi

Published: 2023-11-21T15:35:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Squarespace](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/squarespace.md>), [Squarespace Engineering Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/squarespace-engineering-blog.md>)

Topics: [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tutorial.md>)

Tags: [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [reading](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reading.md>), [structure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/structure.md>), [technical-documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical-documentation.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how good headings and content structure make technical documentation easier to scan. It discusses headings as a blueprint and map, their role in automatically generated tables of contents, and how structure should reflect the content type and the reader's goal.

## Source excerpt

Part 1 of this tutorial introduced you to the content types that are most common in technical documentation. You also evaluated a real-life example as a reader, and you may have realized how headings are essential to a good reader experience. It's because readers on the web do not read - they scan ¹ . People actually read 25% slower on the web² and they only read 20% of the content on a page³. (This data is from 2008; I'm scared to know the percentage today.)