As long as you strip out the distractions: Pictures and videos which add nothing, ads, other visual cruft.
Clean design is nice, but I like being able to consume the relevant bits without having to scroll. I can move my eyes around.
Which brings me around to my point - not everyone has the same preferences with regard to presentation and parsing of information. The latest trends in web design aren't necessarily better - they are Western (and English) centric, and as well highly informed by an industry which likes to foist things on their users and hope they become trained to accept it as normal.
I don't see Japanese web design as backward, ancient, dated, just different. Possibly, in some ways, better.
I'd love to see an analysis of loadtimes, page size, tracking javascript, etc. When I have low signal on my phone (and thus not much bandwidth), these beautiful clean, minimal websites somehow take an age to load - because of all the largely invisible baggage they come along with.
It's part of why I love this site for news, as well as lite.cnn.io. (If anyone knows of more sites stripped of everything but text for news, I'm always looking for some)
As long as you strip out the distractions: Pictures and videos which add nothing, ads, other visual cruft.
Clean design is nice, but I like being able to consume the relevant bits without having to scroll. I can move my eyes around.
Which brings me around to my point - not everyone has the same preferences with regard to presentation and parsing of information. The latest trends in web design aren't necessarily better - they are Western (and English) centric, and as well highly informed by an industry which likes to foist things on their users and hope they become trained to accept it as normal.
I don't see Japanese web design as backward, ancient, dated, just different. Possibly, in some ways, better.
I'd love to see an analysis of loadtimes, page size, tracking javascript, etc. When I have low signal on my phone (and thus not much bandwidth), these beautiful clean, minimal websites somehow take an age to load - because of all the largely invisible baggage they come along with.
It's part of why I love this site for news, as well as lite.cnn.io. (If anyone knows of more sites stripped of everything but text for news, I'm always looking for some)