Worst Websites
Ohio Academy of Science – Example of Bad Web Design for January 30, 2012
January 29th, 2012 9:09 pm by Vincent Flanders
Submitter’s comments: The website is stuck in the 1990s and it’s terrible to navigate.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: They also have links that are unmarked PDFs—lots of them. I viewed the source and counted 103 unmarked PDF links!
The home page has a Google Page Speed score of 14—one of the lowest I’ve seen. It’s major error is it resizes images in HTML or CSS. There are 32 of them and if they were properly scaled, they could save 2.5Mb in bandwidth each time the page loads. The site doesn’t enable caching or compression.
We have too much material on the home page (of course we do), the usual text problems (multiple colors, sizes, etc.). If scientists conducted experiments the way they design websites, all the scientists would have been blown up.
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