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re: Am I the only one that hates slideshow/(prev<-->next) articles?

Posted on 10/31/15 at 10:16 am to
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
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Member since Jan 2005
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Posted on 10/31/15 at 10:16 am to
I hate those things too.

I'm OK with 3-4 pages but having to click 64 times (for example, ____ for every NFL team with a photo then an explanation) is ridiculous.
Posted by Queen
Member since Nov 2009
3047 posts
Posted on 10/31/15 at 10:20 am to
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I always assumed they did this so that they could get more ad revenue. I also just close out of the article.


That is a lot of it. If you ever look at website analytics there is a metric called the bounce rate, which measures the number of site visitors who were on the site but left before ever clicking off the page where they started. Each slide is a new URL, so someone who clicks even one slide has officially not "bounced." Like you mentioned with ad revenue, it also provides a whole new page, which is a whole new set of ads. Since those are sold on impression numbers a 10-page slideshow is literally worth that much more in ad revenue for the person selling it. But I still hate them and will close them every single time.
Posted by Geekboy
Member since Jan 2004
8517 posts
Posted on 10/31/15 at 12:31 pm to
The deslider hardly ever works
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