What are the most annoying things in a webpage?

Slow speed, crazy graphics. Oh, I also hate it when I need to lookfor call to action button. I think a site should have a very clear message in the front.

Tonnes of stuff loading (slowly) from external Web sites. I know we have some of those on here, but we try to keep the external cruft to a minimum.

Also, things like giant bars along the bottom of the page, full of lame social networking stuff. It's fine if people want to use services like Facebook, but most of the time they aren't integrating Facebook into every article/page they read. And for people, like me, who aren't interested in social networking it's a massive waste of screen space. Even 'Share this' bars that 'stick' (position: fixed; in CSS) to the bottom or top of the viewport are really annoying.

tl;dr pages that load slowly due to lots of superfluous 'cool' features from external Web sites.

and what about music and videos, starting automatically? For me personally, that is the first step, indicating I won't probably visit a website again.

also flash banners those disappear after some seconds. this type of banner irritate to me...

Markwest wrote:

Hi, mates

Here my matter goes.
It would be cool you to express the opinion about the most irritating and annoying things, that could be put into a webpage or webdesign.
Any ideas?

The most irritating thing is the speed of uploading the page because if speed is low that will ruin the every effort you made on site.Matt Cuff also said in his tutorial that web page speed is the most important thing of a website.

will agree with you, Anna. Website loading time is greatly significant, cause not every user will wait more than 10 sec. to get info or so

In my experience there will be few thing we need to avoid,

Splash Pages
W3C Validation Buttons
Hit Counter

Hi ti all ,
Most irritating thing on the homepage is many flash pictures .. It decrease the beauty of a page ..

most annoying thing would be the Pop-ups and autoplay advertisements.
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According to me their are few issues
1. Page Loading Speed(Maximum 5 Second)
2. Auto pop up
3. Auto Video and music Play (Most annoy thing in a page)
4. Splash Pages
5. Auto Play Advertisement

The most irritating / annoying things on the web are:
Pop ups
Wrong yet correctly typed capatcha
Fluctuating internet connection
Advertisements
Smileys with sounds

Slowly loading websites with heavy graphics and flash animations are really annoying, also useless pop ups and sites with videos and music who eats your bandwidth are also causing problems.

websites taking too much loading time, hidden links to irrelevant content, auto audio & video playing.
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Some useless things.

As you know, there are many "things" implemented into a web page that ticks us off.

So, let's all hear your opinions on the most annoying/irritating things that someone can add to their web page.

My "favourites" are as follows:
- when site doesn't load for minutes
- pop ups and pop unders
- too much adds, inline ads
- auto music & video
- boxes, asking whether I'm sure I want to leave a page

I agree with you. If you have more ideas about it then please share in thread.

Markwest wrote:

Hi, mates

Here my matter goes.
It would be cool you to express the opinion about the most irritating and annoying things, that could be put into a webpage or webdesign.
Any ideas?

i hate 100% flash sites.

i hate music especially if theres no option to kill it.

i kinda hate those websites where instead of going to different pages its just one long *** page that scroll down hella far. those have gotten really popular lately. dont know why
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- pop ups (its really annoying to see them keep coming)
- slow loading speed (people dont wait that long and leave)
- audio thing that is not necessary
- images not showing

I guess almost everyone hates these things

Well that would be the Pop-ups and annoying autoplay advertisements. and sometimes having insufficient information for the specific page or topic is also annoying.