Should I make a sticky menu?

Question

Design

Do you think it's worth doing and in what cases do you need a sticky menu so that, for example, when a person scrolls down, is this menu with the main sections and functions visible?

Answer 1

When making a fixed menu, you need to understand that you are limiting the user's field of view.
You can easily get by with the "up" button, which will return to the very beginning of the page. A fixed menu makes sense if it is small in height, and contains functionality that may be urgently needed at any time, or information that should always be in front of your eyes ( for example, the number of items in the cart or the total amount of the purchase).

Answer 2

If the site page is large, then you need to do so that the user does not have to scroll up. But the menu should not be half a page or distract from the main content.

Answer 3

it all depends on what information it carries and whether it will be useful to the user in such cases. But the best thing is to test it, you also have analytics for different periods of the site. If you consider the sticky menu important, install it for a couple of days and see how much the analytics has changed: the percentage of user abandonment has decreased or increased, etc.

Answer 4

You can fix the menu when there is enough vertical space for the main content (the height of the stuck menu is less than or equal to 10% of the viewport height).
If there is not enough space for content, you need to hide the stuck menu when scrolling down, and push it when scrolling up. This will remove the "scroll up" link.
The same on mobile phones: scroll down - the entire screen is under the content, as soon as you scroll up - a menu pops up.