Web Surfers' Top Pet Peeves

Posted on August 1, 2005

A recent survey by the Hostway webhosting company found that web surfers have specific things that don't like about websites and if they discover one or more of these pet peeves they are unlikely to revisit that website again or buy something from the website. Here is a list of what web surfer pet peeves:

  • Pop-up advertising -- 34.9%
  • Registration log-on pages -- 16.7%
  • Software installation -- 15.7%
  • Slow-loading pages -- 9.1%

    Over 76% of respondents said they would be unlikely to return to a website that had one of these peeves and over 70% said they would not buy something from an irksome website.


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