Bad/bloated web design

[PlainName]

Gotta be my browser, then (Waterfox). Doubt if it's the Google analytics blocker

[Ranayna]

There is a lot of other things to complain about this page though
Come on, an animated "accept all cookies" button? 

[MrMobodies]

Massive big spammy toolbar on this website all of a sudden hiding on the slightest scroll so I turned the headerhiderfixer off to see how it would look:






I noticed on archive.org there was a point where the huge header wasn't fixed.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200418063338/https://community.autism.org.uk/


I believe some overzealous person thought, oh because it is deemed so helpful to navigation where they can get to the buttons easily and quickly navigate, we'll stick on everywhere and everything except they didn't think of those it works against by the distraction and bloat by the room that one takes up over the contents.

I wouldn't mind if there was a fixed widget on sides at the top to show hide the thing when I want it or don't want t but at that size I'd have to scroll more but the distraction itself is where I'd choose to hide it.

As typical no regard for user preference for those who don't want it stuck there constantly.

Don't you think that is massive?

[PlainName]

I believe some overzealous person thought, oh because it is deemed so helpful to navigation where they can get to the buttons easily and quickly navigate

Possibly designed for phones (who uses a computer thingy nowadays?!?). With those, there needs to be some way of popping up the toolbar when all the furniture is hidden to allow max space for the web page. Usually that's on a down scroll only, though...

[MrMobodies]

Possibly designed for phones

Yes but that's being going on since 2015.

(who uses a computer thingy nowadays?!?

I do. I REFUSE to use a mobile or tablet to browse and as well as no tactile keyboard I'd loose me temper over the following:
Hardly any browser control to find and hide spammy things that annoy me like, suggestions, loading animations/eye hurting dimming overlay, transitional things that flash the page, excessive use of spinners, gradients that obscure the pictures and set false illusions of clouds and shadows, animated skeleton loading placeholders flash annoy and slow the whole thing down.

With those, there needs to be some way of popping up the toolbar when all the furniture is hidden to allow max space for the web page  . Usually that's on a down scroll only, though...

That'd be great if they could start doing that where it could work for both and give the user a choice over the room of screen area. Something I'd expect in this day and age instead of ramming in yer face.

[PlainName]

who uses a computer thingy nowadays?!?

Just in case it wasn't clear, I was trying to be ironic there

[MrMobodies]

After watching Louise Rossman talk about a vacuum made by Hoover. and complaining about the warranty I thought I'd go and see if they still put the Queens logo on them "By appointment of Queen" etc.

I don't see any when I looked at one on Very.co.uk but the page took like 8 seconds to load with all this animated crap.

https://www.very.co.uk/hoover-h-energy-300-pets-bagged-cylinder-vacuum-cleaner/1600809924.prd

36% CPU time

24% CPU time

3% CPU time with all that stupid crap gone.


Page now loads instantly or a few seconds with the content further below in place of those things instead of those things flashing everywhere, hogging up the CPU via that gradient cycling thing causing the whole thing to slow down on every page load.

Stupid stupid stupid stupid!
When I see these things they just make me go absolutely mad.

very.co.uk##.tvg-overlay-enter-done
very.co.uk##[data-testid="product-card-skeleton"]
very.co.uk##[data-testid="fuse-skeleton-test-id"]
very.co.uk##[data-testid="verypay-skeleton-card"]
##.tvg-overlay-enter-done
##[data-testid="product-card-skeleton"]
##[data-testid="fuse-skeleton-test-id"]
##[data-testid="verypay-skeleton-card"]

Maybe I should make some more wildcard variants of the element names above on my blocklist so by chance I won't see them on other websites.

[MrMobodies]

Just noticed this fixed little question mark on Ebay which opens this dialogue


Other than animated light overlay it seems nice and simple with no dimming overlays around it or resource wasting decorations/animated skeleton placeholers.


Dialogue can be dragged and is made translucent on moving it.

They seem to have managed to make something fixed, for a change that is simple, out of the way, not too distracting without bloating it with too many animations and annoying stuff.

Thank you very much ebay.