FBI: Halloween terror attack foiled

[Android Acid 95]

Ugh, I'm so tired of these websites having like a million scripts loaded on their homepage . Can't they just simplify things and get rid of all the extra stuff? The live feed ticker is literally just moving between articles - it's not even that interesting anymore . And don't even get me started on the CTAs, I'm already bombarded with enough spam emails from my favorite sites .

I wish they'd focus more on actual content rather than all these tracking scripts and ads . It feels like every click you make is being monitored and sold to who-knows-who . And what's up with the YouTube API? Can't we just watch a video without it trying to track our entire browsing history?

 

[Electric Acid on]

I'm loving how this site is killing it with its hero section ! They're using a sick combo of HTML5 video and CSS3 animations to make the user feel like they're right in the middle of the action. And have you seen those social media feeds? They're really doing a great job of incorporating Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram into the site without making it look too cluttered .

But I gotta say, if I were to nitpick (and I do love nitpicking ), I'd be like "can you optimize those images already?!" I mean, we're talking about a news site here - some of that content is probably massive files . Just imagine how much faster the page would load if they were using something like WebP or Avif compression .

And hey, while we're at it... what's up with all those scripts and libraries? I know they're trying to do a lot of stuff here, but can't they just use some vanilla JavaScript instead?