25 Reasons People Leave Your Site In 10 Seconds

[MrJohn]

http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/6924-25 ... 10-seconds

Great article, it applies to forums as well as websites in my eyes.

 

[David]

14 is not necessarily a bad thing, but can limit some user's experience. For 22, Facebook's About page doesn't really give much information yet people use it (and new people sign up).

 

[Guardian]

Great list! thanks.

 

[stxyzth]

Haha I'm glad my site doesn't have most.

 

[Mik.]

Man I hate #1 & #2 the most. I leave those sites immediately.

 

[Cam]

I hate the second reason with a passion. I hate popups. They are so annoying. Auto music is pretty bad too.

 

[Justin]

Blast from the past :lol:

I don't know, so many popular sites I have been on have pop ups so I am used to them, doesn't bother me anymore. So many are true though.

 

[NestExpressed]

Agreed, many of the above are highly annoying...I'm trying to keep mine clean and without popups. It is "left aligned" though...oops 😉

 

[etc]

i sometimes use pop ups to make my users click like us on facebook 😀 but i disable it sometimes.

 

[JamesD31]

#4 is kind of stupid. Yes depending on the content 10 might seem like a small number, but lets say you have thousands of uploads, should I really let the user sit there to load all 4,000+ uploads on my website for a single page? nah.

@DavidL regarding #14 it is kind of a bad thing. You are losing space to place content - my new rule of thumb for site widths is ~960px now as the typical screen resolution is ~1024x728 and this is honestly changing to bigger sizes and will be changed in the next few years even.

Also ill comment on #22 too - Facebook is not a website you should compare, or at least the non-logged in portion of the website. Facebook has some of the most users and is the #2 most visited website outside of Google. With this said, people already know what it is and honestly don't care what most of the company content says - they go to it to login / register to then do the logged in portion of the website.

 

[Aney]

I made a few slight edits thanks to this list. Thank you 🙂

 

[Tecca]

I went into the article thinking I'd know all of 'em, but there were a couple that I didn't really think about before. And I agree.

Oh and the one I hate the most is interstitial - but a lot of big websites can get away with doing it, sadly.

 

[IAAM Radio]

Good article still relevant 2 years after it was written.

 

[forumhookers]

Damn, nice article mate. Useful though.

 

[Anthony Scolaro]

http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/6924-25-reasons-why-i-ll-leave-your-website-in-10-seconds

Great article, it applies to forums as well as websites in my eyes.

I agree with you it's a great article. I'll Tweet this to my Twitter followers I'm sure they will be interested to read this.

Thanks for Sharing

 

[rixopod]

An interesting list, don't agree with all of them 😛

 

[tendify.com]

I believe we have hopefully avoided all those pitfalls! Ironically, the link itself had some rather annoying pop-ups. Practice what you preach.

 

[Firen]

One more point to be added...
Point #26

As a universal fact users don't like sites which are inactive... and yes it is very hard to make your site active, it takes years

 

[Bob Evans]

Very informative and entertaining article. Really enjoyed it. Many thanks for posting it.

 

[angie828]

Great list. Many do not take the time to know why people leave a site so fast. It is imperative to know these things so you can only better your site.