What Makes a Website a Good Site?

Posted: December 15, 2014

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Think of all the websites that are visited on a daily basis and the quality of them. There are many factors that go into play to have a website considered a good site. Make your website one of the good ones, and have users want to be on it more often.

Stefan Pfeiffer, writer for Social Media Today, shares what classifies a website as being a good site.

What Makes a Good Website?

It annoys me every time I’m out somewhere and use my iPhone to check a website for some information I urgently need and the page comes up small and illegible on the screen. That just won’t do in the mobile era we live in today. Companies need to set up their websites so they work properly on mobile devices. This minor irritation got me thinking about what exactly makes a good website, in other words, the sort of website I like to use. I think that speed still tops the list. And speed does not always mean the bandwidth that is available at the time. You can also improve speed through sophisticated design and the technology on the site. Design is another important element for me. Sure, tastes differ, but logical user navigation is definitely something you can create objectively to a large extent. I like it when the information I’m searching for appears as if by magic. I’ve always liked the way Amazon recommends books or articles. Obviously, the site “taps into” my data, buying history, and the pages I visited and makes recommendations based on this information. I’d like to see other websites do something similar. Information – it doesn’t always involve a purchase – could be customized for me. I want sites to recognize me as a visitor or customer. “Hi Stefan, you’ll be interested in this…” And if it really does interest me, then I’ll be happy. Read the entire article What Makes a Good Website? on Social Media Today.