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Most viewed (in this section | across the guardian) does not work, and other issues.

Open zenonp opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

As the page loads, the "most viewed" tabs flash by for a moment and then disappear; see ~~attached~~ linked video beween 0:10 and 012. The browser is firefox 52.3.0 ESR 64 bit on Scientific Linux (RHEL) 7.3.

As a separate issue based on the same video, please pay attention to the networking status messages at the bottom left corner and note how long it takes for the page to complete loading. An eternity on an (actual, not nominal) 12,7 Mbits line. The video was made with Privacy Badger disabled. Enabling it cuts loading time to less than half and the Guardian's ad revenue by 100%. The Guardian's extreme inclusion of all kinds of third-party content from twitter, facebook, scribd, google+, you name them, on top of analytics and ads from a hundred different places, is the very reason why I installed Privacy Badger in the first place. Please consider reader privacy (and issue #16924) before adding any third-party content. The fact that something is technically possible is never a reason in and by itself to actually do it.

As yet another separate issue based on the same video, pleease note how the page jumps up and down as it loads. I suspect this is the result of client-side javascript pulling in bits and pieces of the page in random order. This causes me to misclick several times per day, as I aim for a link and by the time I hit the button the page has moved and a different link is at the place where I had just aimed.

zenonp avatar Aug 26 '17 14:08 zenonp

I'm not sure if this is the same issue, but on this page https://www.theguardian.com/football/world-cup-2018-qualifiers/table the most viewed section is empty on latest Chrome

piuccio avatar Oct 11 '17 05:10 piuccio

👋 Same thing on Firefox 55.0.3 on 10.11.

paperboyo avatar Oct 11 '17 09:10 paperboyo