Recently, my findings have been confirmed in independent studies by several others. This is truly a general phenomenon that characterizes user behavior across sites and studies. Don't try teaching users the site structure, don't try showing them where they are, don't try telling them where else they can go. Instead, just show people content. I don't fully agree with this analysis.
Navigation is overdone on many sites .
In particular, the so-called spoke design where every page is linked to every other page leads to reduced usability. There is no reason to mention all features of the site on all pages. Similarly, a news site does not need to list all the headlines in the margin of every news article. Nor is it necessary to link to all the other sections. Then use the available space to add useful links to related articles and to the author's biography.