Bad websites

To be honest, we would have loved to call this a list of not so good websites, but its just simpler to call them bad websites to make sure we get the message across. But why have a blog post about bad websites?

Well as Charlie Munger said - much of success comes from avoiding common paths to failure. When creating a website, its almost easier to avoid what is bad, than to come up with something genius. Hence, we decided to maintain a list of what we think are bad websites (bad UX, bad choice of font, bad on page seo, bad accessibility et al). Hopefully this list leads to better websites for both those building and their visitors.

Introduction

So what is a bad website ? There are many ways to judge websites and classify them as bad. This is a subjective list of websites identified by the Konigle team as bad. We spend our entire time building internet marketing tools and research what are both good and bad websites.

The list is no particular order but rather updated often as someone on the team comes across a bad website and they post it to our internal slack channel #bad-websites. Here we go.

Tom's Guide

Tom's Guide was registered ~24.5 years ago. According to various SEO tools this website gets anywhere between 15 million to 50 million visitors a month and this has to be one of the most frustrating websites to visit. They seemed to have sold every possible pixel of a web page to advertisers. Assuming an average visit duration of ~ 1 minute, that's almost 250,000 minutes of frustration every month for us humans.

Apart from banner ads across every inch of the page, you are also greeted with a very bad implementation of an email popup. To make matters worse, you also get a subscribe for notifications popup almost immediately as you visit the page. 

Apart from the user experience being bad while on the website, this website is a 3rd party cookie jar and just one visit to this website you are going to have these ads follow you on other websites too.

Sarkari Result

Sarkari Results is a 13-year-old website which focuses on providing information and resources on various government jobs in India. Usually there are standardized examinations in India to qualify to interview for a government job, hence they have different pages for admit cards, latest jobs, syllabus, answer keys etc.

They have a monthly traffic of almost 117 million from govt job aspirants across India!

Their website is also bombarded with ads mainly from ad networks like Adsense and media.net. Almost all ad types are used strategically at several places to look as if its a part of the website and could mislead readers to click on them.

They have a very poor user experience with several bright colors, such as buttons and links all over. Core Web Vitals Assessment also failed when we tested the website and it's not even responsive on mobile. Most of Indian job aspirants visit this website on phone and its going to be a nightmare to navigate through this.

Looking to build a website ?

If you are looking to create a website or revamp your existing website, we urge you to create a website that is great not just for bots but also humans. Yes, you can have a website that ranks well and also has great accessibility and user experience for visitors.

If you want to make such a website, you may want to try Konigle. With our easy to use chat based AI website builder you can create and maintain professional websites. Here are 30+ reasons why use Konigle , many of those reasons help you avoid building bad websites.

Let us know your thoughts and maybe share examples of bad websites that you may come across in the comments below.