To give a negative example I recently came across, check out https://www.scmp.com/ https://www.scmp.com/ Now, it's pretty much a normal news website in that it

To give a negative example I recently came across, check out https://www.scmp.com/ https://www.scmp.com/ Now, it's pretty much a normal news website in that it shows a long list of articles, some pictures and then text. I am running a standard laptop computer given to me by my company. My internet connection is pretty fast. Even with ads blocked on the entire website, that thing is slooow. 1. The pictures have an effect where they are rendered in increasing quality over time, supposedly so you see them earlier. This doesn't work, as they load much more slowly than normal HTML pictures that load instantly given my internet connection. 2. The scrolling is more than sluggish. This is, in part, because the website only loads new content after you scroll down. So instead of having a website that loads and where you can just scroll, which would make TONS of sense for a website where you quickly want to check the headlines, you have this terrible experience where every scrolling lags and induces a new "loading screen". 3. If you click on an article, it is loaded as a single page app with an extra loading screen, which is somehow slow for some reason. 4. Once in the article, the scrolling disaster continues. But now even the text loads slowly while you scroll. How can you not just have the text load instantly? It's a news website. I want to read! I don't want to scroll, wait for the load, and then continue to read. 5. There is a second scrolling bar besides my browser's scrolling bar. Why? Who thought that's a good idea? The scrolling bar's top button disappears behind the menu bar of the website. Why? 6. To use this website, one needs to scroll through the whole article to get it to load, then scroll back up, then read. Still, each time the menu bar changes size due to scrolling, my computer gets sluggish. 7. Javascript Pop ups. Great. 8. Every time your mouse cursor moves accidentally over any element of the website, gigantic pop ups show up out of nowhere and you can't continue reading. Annoying! This website presents news. It's not better at it than earlier ones, it's worse. None of the things make the experience any better and it gives no more benefit to reading news than older, plain html news websites. The reading experience is an unmitigated disaster for no reason whatsoever. Who greenlit this? Why? If you are a web developer, you work in a business where the state of the art has notably gotten worse. A lot worse. At this stage, I would be seriously worried about the reputation of the profession if I were you. Sad!