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Australia says

I as you guys may well be, am always on the internet. In fact nigh on 24/7 and always looking at innovative sites, sites that catch my eye and inevitably take a looksy at nigh on all sites src code.

It is somewhat amazing, at times to find seemingly top notch websites, with absolute “cringeable” formatting and bad coding practice.

One I was looking at earlier is for one of the biggest electrical wholesalers in Australia.

https://www.thegoodguys.com.au/

I was staggered when I viewed their src code… have you got a well known, or seemingly big site you know of that on src code inspection has so many fundamental errors and issues ?

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Crakken says

Okay but are the visitors aware of that? I don’t think so, and I think that’s their point. I also think that it’s a big site because it’s secure: HTTPS . But I don’t know if it’s because I’m downloading a 13 GB file right now, but the website so so freakishly slow.

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AGSoft says

but the website so so freakishly slow.

It’s not that slow tbh. Another terrible Australian business website is MSY . Love their cheap prices, hate their website and hate how they don’t deliver. :(

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Joost moderator says

But I don’t know if it’s because I’m downloading a 13 GB file right now, but the website so so freakishly slow.

Horribly slow here as well. I feel like I’m downloading 13GB as well, except it is that website ;) EDIT : Ah it’s done loading. Looks like a decent site, except for all the whitespace in the source. The source is just the result of some IDE that procudes code that’s hard to read in a plaintext editor, I guess?

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michaeldale says

https://www.thegoodguys.com.au/

Wow almost 20K lines of HTML . Just wow. No wonder it is slow!

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mazoor says

thegoodguys not only loads terribly slow, it also makes me not being able to use any other tab opened in my Safari – just plain white and broken while it’s loading… and it’s not like my machine’s slow, I got that 27” iMac thingy.

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flashedge says

Slower than a spastic turtle. Good guys are bad at coding. You’re doing it wrong.

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MSFX moderator says

wow that took ages for something so plain and boring. Was likely fully made in Dreamweaver automatically from Photoshop so you have 10mb of CSS etc…

useless.

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Australia says

Apologies I should have asked a MOD to slap a warning on right clicking that site to view src code !

LOL Madness huh !

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aaranmcguire says

Wow, That can be a Dreamweaver thing… I think thats a noob developer thinking if i put white space no one can see my code haha…

its in some sort of java as well. (Java Simple Plugin Framework)

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