Web Annoyance Chart
What are the most annoying things on the web? I’m not talking about spam or virii or Windows being unstable. I’m talking about things that websites do that are just really annoying. Here is my list:
- Animated GIFs
- Blinking text
- Flash
- Pop-up/Pop-under Windows
- really small text
- background sound
What are your least-favorite things? Vote below.
A note about Flash: 98.7% of all Flash I see is ads, or a site that has gone to 100% Flash and doesn’t seem to care that I am on a really slow connection. I realize that Flash itself can be useful, but in practice, it is far more often annoying than helpful.
Comments
You forgot scrolling (marquee) text, especially when the content of the text is not visible all the time. I have to wait until it scrolls by - or to switch it of by using my own stylesheet ;-)
Posted by: Roland Reck | September 18, 2003 06:58 AM
yellow writing on white backgrounds... :)
(of course you can just switch from author mode...)
Posted by: dave marsdin | September 24, 2003 07:36 PM
I'd consider virii or explorer.exe's lack of stability far more annoying then a webpage I can just click off of.
Posted by: Martez | October 4, 2003 06:10 PM
Printing out web pages only to find that the text has been right-truncated!! :-(
Posted by: Wiking | April 1, 2004 05:22 AM