Pagination

[Sarah]

The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters usedin numbering the pages; page number. Lowndes.

[Sarah]

The act of paginating a web-page, or a web page that has been paginated.

Basically, instead of putting an entire article on a single web page, to paginate is to spread the article across multiple pages. A good example is a news article containing 12 images, but each image is on a single web page, forcing you to click the 'next' button 11 times in order to see all the images.

This practice is often used by websites as a means of click-baiting the viewer; by forcing you to keep loading new pages, you're spending longer on the website - and by extension, viewing more advertisements on the site, which leads to ad revenue.

Unfortunately, this is inconvenient for the end user; particularly if they're browsing on mobile device and the connection is slow, as it greatly increases the amount of time spent waiting for pages to fully-load. It also means more mobile data is used overall as the entire page has to be reloaded each time you click the 'next' button.

[Kit]

To place pages in sequential order because the authors poor [Microsoft Office] skills propelled the overall [formatting] into a interspersed and [muddled] mess of a document. Noun, verb, adjective.

[Mary Mallozziberg]

The sequence of numbers assigned to pages in a book or periodical.

[exinilu]

the way in which the pages of a book, document, etc. are given numbers