Top 8 annoying things visitor hates on a website.
We asked different people to tell what they hate when they visit a website and what kind of websites they will never visit again.
- Pop-ups (17 people). Is it a good way to make extra money for pop ups loosing hundereds people who might come back later and buy your product or service? Every company which use pop ups to advertise their products knows that they get extra impressions, clicks, and customers stealing your visitors almost for free.
- Slow loading pages (12 people). Visitors are getting freaked out when pages load slow and leave website right away. Clean your pages removing large picture, video, flash etc files. Change hosting company if it is their fault.
- Annoying ads / more than 50% filled with banners / flashing banners (11 people). 10 years ago it really worked to place “You are 1 million visitor” flashing banner but today only 80 years old people who access internet for the first time click this. 1-2 quality banners in the right place could make more money than 20 banners and 50 sponsored links.
- Small text / hard to read (7 people). Your message will be never delivered to right people if they simply have troubles to read this. Change your text size and make sure that backgound colour are different than text colour.
- Hard to navigate (7 people). People are getting confused and don’t want to deal when website developers use to geeky language, make it hard to navigate through peges, confuse people with useless links and information. A lot of people complain that some links and subfolders named similar confusing clients and customers. For example: Person want to open a credit card, on a homepage it gives links to credit center, credit cards, credit issues, credit support, customer service, enroll, personal credit, credit zone… What would you click in this case? If you have a lot of time you can try to click this links one buy one, but many others will go to another bank site.
- Stupid faces and poor designed ads (3 people). Many people don’t really trust when they see a picture of “happy” family with silly message like “We just bought sweeper and saved 40%”. Simple message with small picture which attract human eye makes way better job.
- Different design for each subfolder (2 people). For websites which use different content software (main pages, blog, forum, shopping cart, customer center…) it is important to keep at least the same logo and background.
- Redirects and hidden links (2 people). People are getting mad when they think that link follow them to another page but it redirect them to another website.
Link this post:
If you found this interesting, use the code in the box below to link
this page from your website or blog.
this page from your website or blog.

January 27th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
January 28th, 2008 at 8:01 am
January 28th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
[…] TechWeb Media | Top 8 annoying things visitor hates on a website. We asked different people to tell what they hate when they visit a website and what kind of websites they will never visit again. (tags: web webdesign list annoying features) document.write(”); […]
January 28th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
So why don’t you click on them, you people????!!!!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
During survey we asked random people who doesn’t know nothing about web marketing. All of them don’t know a difference between Google ads, DoubleClick, Clicksor, CJ, or any other advertising networks.
We did not asked webmasters because they give their own “geeky” opinion which can’t represent average intenet user.
People click on Google ads way less than it used to be because they became more educated, many of them already know difference between regular links and ads… Also, in 2007 Google made clickable space smaller and it reduced clicks which happen by accident.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 am
[…] TechWeb Media | Top 8 annoying things visitor hates on a website. […]