There are occasionally use cases for infinite scroll, but I agree that most of the time, it's a design anti-pattern. My preferred solution to pagination: by de

There are occasionally use cases for infinite scroll, but I agree that most of the time, it's a design anti-pattern. My preferred solution to pagination: by default, load a large number of results per page. The markup overhead is minimal with gzip, database hits can be mitigated with caching, and images can be lazy-loaded if necessary. Best of both worlds, and friendlier to users and search engines alike. Also, there's no reason pagination can't work inline (ie, link to "Load 10 More Results"), which also gives you the best of both.