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RESULTS: What do you hate most about modern websites?

I compiled a list of the items mentioned in the question I posted two days ago. I needed it for a project I'm releasing next week (Global user preferences), but I found the results very interesting and I decided to share.

Here is the top 10:

  1. Pop-ups (18)
  2. Cookie consent (14)
  3. Slowness/too much javascript (11)
  4. Useless/Excess animations/GIFs (8)
  5. Endless scrolling (7)
  6. Autoplay video/audio (6)
  7. Look the same (6)
  8. Scroll hijacking (3)
  9. Complicated layouts/clutter (3)
  10. Dark patterns (3)

Number of responders: 43 (39 IH, 7 other places).

Some remarks:

  • Every item is written differently so I used my own interpretation to categorize them.
  • It is a small number of responders, so not sufficient to draw any major conclusion, but I have found interesting the number of different answers (25 items for only 43 responders).
  • Many people have just upvoted other answers. I didn't include those, because it is impossible to know the real intent and if the person has answered elsewhere.

Other answers:

  1. Tracking (3)
  2. Lack of personalization (2)
  3. Stock phots (2)
  4. Clickbait headlines (2)
  5. Text not selectable (2)
  6. Menu overlay (2)
  7. Early newsletter pop up (2)
  8. Change open link behavior (2)
  9. Ads (1)
  10. Video background (1)
  11. Blogs with no RSS (1)
  12. Marketing tactics (countdown, counters, etc) (1)
  13. Price hidden (1)
  14. Back button hijacking (1)
  15. Content jump while the page is rendering (1)
on December 17, 2020
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    Good stuff to remember when building a page!