With the removal of the auto playing video and cleaner overall design, this is definitely an improvement. We blogged about it a few weeks ago: http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/top-5-improvements-of-...
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#12Any site that uses an interstitial on its homepage deserves to be beaten over the head. This breaks usability rules left and right.
Hopefully this is just for the launch of the site and not permanent.
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#13Editor's: thanks for cleaning this up and making it useful to HN. Sorry for the originally lame submission.
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#14Good update, atleast a step in the right direction; the auto play was annoying... although it now looks like ford owns the page - guess they have a "look like you own the page" ad package... - espn.com comes in at 213 objects, 200 images - and If I'm correct I have 1.3mb in size - this is horrible I used http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
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#15I'm happy. They got rid of the auto-playing video side bar.
And showing every single score on the planet within the header. Now it's roughly half.
The individual sports pages are also much improved.
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#16The old ESPN site was just god-awful. This new one is better. I'll still probably never visit, but at least now I'll call it that "less awful site I never go to" instead of that 'horrible horrible site I never go to' :-).
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#17The old ESPN site was just god-awful. This new one is better. I'll still probably never visit, but at least now I'll call it that "less awful site I never go to" instead of that 'horrible horrible site I never go to' :-).
It crashes my browser every time I visit. That's pretty annoying.
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#18I've been using the beta for a while. It's changed a lot from the original implementation. I still hate how the two pulldown menus are right next to each other - try reaching "nfl" on the list of sports with the mouse coming from the top of the screen - it's an exercise in frustration.
Well, when the All Sports pulldown comes down, its NFL entry is in exactly the same place as the NFL toolbar entry, so it's no different. Kind of a nice touch.
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#19Looks like it was done by the same people who did IGN's new home page.