Does anyone else go looking on amazon because they used to have loads of stuff, but now there’s just a few things over and over and over and they’re not quite what you wanted. It’s so full of promoted content and you keep thinking that somewhere on one of the pages there might be something new, but no, it’s these same products again and again.

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    15 days ago

    Check out this screenshot from Home Depot’s website.

    About 1/8 of the page is the product. Almost NONE of the page is the “specifications” section, which is the most important section.

    The majority of the page is “frequently bought together”, “More from this brand”, and “Customers also viewed”.

    I have NEVER bought anything from any of these useless lists. But they have slowed down the page sufficiently that I stopped using their website and went elsewhere. Try browsing with just 10 product pages open on this site – you will start having tabs unload or crash due to memory consumption. Some of these product lists have a dozen items in them if you scroll right, so it consumes gigabytes of RAM.

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      15 days ago

      NONE of the page is the “specifications” section

      You may want to double check that. Actually, most of this page could have been left off if that’s all you were looking for.

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        15 days ago

        The “specifications” section is a collapsed section about a quarter of the way down. It starts out collapsed on every page, even if you open it up every time.

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      14 days ago

      About 1/8 of the page is the product. Almost NONE of the page is the “specifications” section, which is the most important section.

      Not a very useful metric once you add in infinite scroll. More important is the fact is the “frequently bought together” section between the product and its details, all of which are collapsed by default (unless you did that)

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        14 days ago

        I didn’t collapse or uncollapse anything on the page before taking the screenshot. On loading, all the spam sections are uncollapsed, and the “specifications” section is collapsed.