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What terrible news. The independent website is terrible. It is one of the slowest, most bloated sites I've ever used. Average page size is several megabytes, pa

by 314 11y ago

What terrible news. The independent website is terrible. It is one of the slowest, most bloated sites I've ever used. Average page size is several megabytes, page layout jams during loads and restarts several times.

koyote 11y ago
Well maybe now with them throwing more resources towards it it will improve? One can only hope.
jayflux 11y ago
I agree, some newspaper's web offerings have been awful in terms of page load and user experience. Not singling any of them out, but I went to a popular UK newspaper's site; it loads hundreds of assets and almost crashes my tablet, and even once it loads half the screen real estate was taken up by a big advert and tiny font in the article. The Guardian (and BBC News) seem to be the only ones taking this seriously so far, and maybe coincidence but I now go to those sites a lot more these days when I'm on my tablet. Some of these companies should take the web more seriously (rather than some side offering they don't really care about) before its too late. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/b2c6502f-7b54-4fde-9695-9ce0b304a7ba http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/b2c6502f-7b54-4f... http://usabilitypost.com/2014/05/09/patrick-hamann-on-making-the-guardian-load-under-1000-ms/ http://usabilitypost.com/2014/05/09/patrick-hamann-on-making...
- xioxox 11y ago
  Is the BBC news site any good? I used to use it a lot in its old form, when there was less whitespace and more content. When I look at it now it seems like there's barely anything there. Most of the stories appear to be videos, which I rarely bother watching. One of the (paper) publications I most enjoy reading is Private Eye, which has a very messy layout with virtually no whitespace, is mostly black and white and has lots of information.
- CM30 11y ago
  Pity the Guardian's website is pretty much the best thing about it nowadays. It used to have good content and a reasonably informed worldview, but now it seems to be just another tabloid going for the Buzzfeed type audience and sacrificing its credibility in the process.

by 314 11y ago

koyote 11y ago

Well maybe now with them throwing more resources towards it it will improve? One can only hope.

jayflux 11y ago

I agree, some newspaper's web offerings have been awful in terms of page load and user experience. Not singling any of them out, but I went to a popular UK newspaper's site; it loads hundreds of assets and almost crashes my tablet, and even once it loads half the screen real estate was taken up by a big advert and tiny font in the article. The Guardian (and BBC News) seem to be the only ones taking this seriously so far, and maybe coincidence but I now go to those sites a lot more these days when I'm on my tablet. Some of these companies should take the web more seriously (rather than some side offering they don't really care about) before its too late. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/b2c6502f-7b54-4fde-9695-9ce0b304a7ba http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/b2c6502f-7b54-4f... http://usabilitypost.com/2014/05/09/patrick-hamann-on-making-the-guardian-load-under-1000-ms/ http://usabilitypost.com/2014/05/09/patrick-hamann-on-making...

xioxox 11y ago
Is the BBC news site any good? I used to use it a lot in its old form, when there was less whitespace and more content. When I look at it now it seems like there's barely anything there. Most of the stories appear to be videos, which I rarely bother watching. One of the (paper) publications I most enjoy reading is Private Eye, which has a very messy layout with virtually no whitespace, is mostly black and white and has lots of information.
CM30 11y ago
Pity the Guardian's website is pretty much the best thing about it nowadays. It used to have good content and a reasonably informed worldview, but now it seems to be just another tabloid going for the Buzzfeed type audience and sacrificing its credibility in the process.