5 Things that Mean Your Website Sucks
Posted by Mandi at 4/14/2008 1:04 PM and is filed under Work,Piss Off,Geek and Tech Stuff,Web Stuff,Social Networking Stuff 
I’m not the greatest web designer out there, not even close. I’m lucky to have a job that allows me to do what I love and improve my skills. That being said, there are a few things that REALLY PISS ME OFF.
I use StumbleUpon and Digg to find interesting new sites. Here are a few things that will cause me to increase your bounce rate (meaning I leave your site RIGHT AWAY) or give you a thumbs down.
I use StumbleUpon and Digg to find interesting new sites. Here are a few things that will cause me to increase your bounce rate (meaning I leave your site RIGHT AWAY) or give you a thumbs down.
- Music on your site that auto plays. Unless you are a band, TV show or Movie website – WTF are you thinking??? I am sitting here, groovin’ to my own music, and your crappy midi file of “Memories” pops on. Your music is not good. I don’t like it. I like MY music, that’s why I’m playing it. You have just caused me to either jump in shock because your horrible music has scared me, or made me think that something is terribly wrong with my iTunes.
- Pop Up Ads. Come on, that’s just tacky. Especially when it’s a crappy blog you write about the sweaters you knit for your 57 cats. Don’t monetize your blog like that. I’m not gonna click that or any other ad on your blog. If you need the money, get a job.
- Ginormous Headers. I should not have to scroll down past the fold to see the beginnings of your content. Having the Hummer of headers is not cool. Its lame, and I really don’t care what’s below it, I’m already gone.
- Flash Intros I can’t skip – for that matter, any kind of frigging landing page that makes me click again to get to what your site is really about. That flash intro isn’t cool. It’s retarded and so are you for thinking its cool.
- Slow Loading Anything. DUDE – RESIZE YOUR SHIT. I am not going to ever wait 5 minutes for all your crappy, un-resized images to load. If you really feel that quality of images trumps speed, put down the crack pipe. Give me an option for the high quality stuff if you must, but don’t make your main pages load slowly. This is 2008 baby, the days of waiting 30 minutes for the dancing hamsters to load (I actually did this back in like ’96) are long gone. And I’m not on dial up – if you can’t hang with the high speed, get off the internet.
Damn, am I glad that my blog doesn't have one of the points above!
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Totally agree with you. Especially about the slow loading.
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Thank You for this post, I wish the world of blogging would visit your site and read what you have to say - BRAVO Girl, BRAVO!!!
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Funny and TRUE! I'm the exact same way, if there's too much of this crap or it takes too much time to load, I bounce off to another site pretty quick.
Btw, I found you off of your ad on RileyCentral, your Entrecard ad on his site (: Just thought you might like to know.
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Poor writing, faulty grammar and spelling and too many exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately, the bloggers who really need to assimilate these hints never will.
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1 AGREEE!!!!!!! the music thing is super super annoying!! I agree with everything, except headers, lol I noticed on myspace some people have big headers.
what's more annoying is websites that constantly flash, sparkle, change colors erratically etc.
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What happened to number 4?
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Amen to this. I actually had one woman tell me, "If you don't like the music just turn off your speakers." What a b****! If you're gonna add that stuff at least give a way to shut the crap off so we can listen to what we need or want to listen to. It really pissed me off because the music woke my baby.
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Ugh...what is up with that midi music anyway??? I especially hate it when it's on an information site that has something I really need to read.
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Number 1 is good info for me.
Thanks
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Guilty as Charged yer Honour!!
;PPP
Cheers Everybody!! Billy
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You forgot Lolcats. Nothing says "go back where you came from" faster than felines with bad grammar.
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How about the scrolling banners that change colors? Really annoying and distracting!
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I think the most annoying one from above is the auto playing music on a site. Especially when it doesn't load right away and sneeks up on you a few seconds later.
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But EVERYONE likes it when I play Phil Collins in the background! He's badass!
...as I check to see if I have any of those five things on our blog.
Write more!
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Yep times 5. I bounce out on all those.
Oh, wait...I don't have any of those do I?
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I hope the "ads" I have on my site aren't a cause for anyone to bounce. Sure it's a bit of monetization of the blog, but it doesn't interfere with the flow of my content or my load times.
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