Originally Posted by Curtis

Ads with noise.

The past few months i've noticed a huge increase in these sort of ads.

Of course, most people already listed what annoys me the most. Live-Chat popups or any built in popup that requires me to look for that 'X'.

And the X is increasingly differently positioned or in pink on red

Originally Posted by PaulW

And the X is increasingly differently positioned or in pink on red

Yep, anybody would think they don't want people to find it.

Personally, what ticks me off most is badly coded sites. Slow or errorous (java)scripts, non-optimized graphics and just general bad structured code.

If I can give a quick tip to anyone interested, try searching "YSlow" on Google..

You're a true hacker, according to the Jargon file, Sp1r1t: you said "errorous" instead of erroneous. Only hackers do that, allegedly. (Hackers, not crackers, obviously).

Cheers for the link. That's really useful. A vital bookmark.

This excerpt is very very very useful and will be news to many here!!

YSlow's web page analysis is based on the 23 of these 34 rules that are testable. Click each performance rule below to see the details.
Minimize HTTP Requests
Use a Content Delivery Network
Avoid empty src or href
Add an Expires or a Cache-Control Header
Gzip Components
Put StyleSheets at the Top
Put Scripts at the Bottom
Avoid CSS Expressions
Make JavaScript and CSS External
Reduce DNS Lookups
Minify JavaScript and CSS
Avoid Redirects

Remove Duplicate Scripts
Configure ETags
Make AJAX Cacheable
Use GET for AJAX Requests
Reduce the Number of DOM Elements
No 404s
Reduce Cookie Size
Use Cookie-Free Domains for Components
Avoid Filters
Do Not Scale Images in HTML
Make favicon.ico Small and Cacheable

Started reading about CDNs... amazingly useful info/education here. Cheers again. This has been most useful to me. I'll be able to gain a lot from it.

"cookie-free domains for components" - what an astute plan


something which annoys me and which definitely makes a site look terrible and loses money and is an awful indictment on their failure to implement intelligent and profitable ads, is when you see really really low quality rank 3rd party ads, for mothers who have made millions from home or who have solved weightloss with some secret silly method, you know the sort of thing. a site i was studying for weeks was showing ads like that. it has a vast userbase and appears on the goog high up. i notice that those ads seem to be gone. my guess is that the lack of profitability led the developer to end up favouring affiliate ads, even though of course that means waiting longer to see how profitable it is - that's why people get misled into putting up really rubbish pay per click ads which end up actually paying you 0.01cents or something like that, for the click, so it's actually SLOWER than non pay per click and of course not profitable and above all makes your users go away to somewhere less cheap and nasty.

Originally Posted by Aunt5ally

You're a true hacker, according to the Jargon file, Sp1r1t: you said "errorous" instead of erroneous. Only hackers do that, allegedly. (Hackers, not crackers, obviously).

/me grins. Ofcourse I am a hacker. As you probably noticed by the l33t 1's in my nickname. Then again, I've noticed a certain 5 in someone else's name.

I'm a bit surprised you've never heard of YSlow, but I'm glad to have mentioned it then. I might as well list some more plugins I use:

- YSlow ( Performance check )
- Firebug ( Live edit and debug code )
- MeasureIt ( Check height, width and alignment )
- HTML Validator
- Firecookie ( Cookies management ond monitoring )
- FireQuery ( Firebug for jQuery )
- FlashBug (Firebug for Flash )

Got some more, but I guess everyone is able to find the Firefox add-on site.

music, music, music, ads, ads, ads. There has nothing been so annoying than these two..:-)