The Internet is Ugly
jeferson.me
The internet is ugly, benchmarks score the checklist but miss the brokenness, div-buttons, dead links, dead emails, and the pages AI will learn from.

Good used to have the lighthouse, which points to failure in the page. We can still have a 100% perfect score and the page be horrible (mine is a good example). Yet, the business pages are broken, links that aren’t working, forms that don’t submit, API’s that can’t load. When the page loads, to start with.

All feedback in the post is welcome.

  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    All feedback in the post is welcome.

    Would it be rude to recommend a grammar checker? The topic and supporting arguments for the post are fine (if a little disorganized, but that’s common for blog posts). I just found the run-ons a bit distracting.

    Otherwise, I agree that the internet is getting shittier. More ads, more walls to defend against scraping, less accessibility, etc. There’s no real metric for how well a page presents its contents, only metrics for specific things like load times, layout shift, and so on. I also suspect that, over time, page scoring will shift toward which sites present the data in ways that are more usable by LLMs.