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Re:The mythical “fast” web page by wruza on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:28AM (#25356513)
Worst sites are not slow, right. Worst sites are those that break visual contracts (cls in the article), and half of “fast” sites do that. You can see it when page is already loaded for few seconds, you scroll/interact with it and then suddenly it behaves as if it was reloaded or jumps to another position right under your finger. You misclick on a link, go back, repeat. It does that not because a top banner loads, but on its own programming quirk. That’s annoying af and should be downranked to the bottom just like any snail-paced site.
Re:The mythical “fast” web page by nicbou on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:35AM (#25356562)
Google treats this as an important ranking factor. That being said, it also values authority, and the websites that pull such nonsense tend to have such authority.

The bigger your website is, the more annoyances you can get away with.

Re:The mythical “fast” web page by GirkovArpa on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:46PM (#25361325)
Like Google itself.
Re:The mythical “fast” web page by martin_a on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:05AM (#25357728)
I find this to be happening with YouTube in Firefox Mobile. For some reason my "watch later list" (or any playlist, I think) jumps like crazy when scrolling through it. It's a real mess and leads to lots of misclicks. Almost feels "broken by design", so I stick to their app.
Re:The mythical “fast” web page by nfriedly on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:05PM (#25364975)
You might want to try out https://vancedapp.com/ - it's basically a modified version of the official youtube app that gets rid of some of the annoyances.
Re:The mythical “fast” web page by martin_a on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:07AM (#25383501)
Thanks, I'll have a look into that.
Re:The mythical “fast” web page by croes on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:28AM (#25357534)
Exactly. It's almost like they are waiting for my click to load the ad and jump under my cursor.