Web Annoyance Chart

September 7, 2003

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:

  1. Animated GIFs
  2. Blinking text
  3. Flash
  4. Pop-up/Pop-under Windows
  5. really small text
  6. 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.

  • http://de.geocities.com/quhno/ Roland Reck

    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 ;-)

  • http://www.endzone1.com dave marsdin

    yellow writing on white backgrounds… :)

    (of course you can just switch from author mode…)

  • http://www.netjak.com Martez

    I’d consider virii or explorer.exe’s lack of stability far more annoying then a webpage I can just click off of.

  • Wiking

    Printing out web pages only to find that the text has been right-truncated!! :-(

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