Is having animation on your site good or bad?

[hwang]

Sometimes we always come across certain websites with excessive animation. Actually it is not that SEO friendly since pages might take longer time to load. Certain people also do not prefer looking at excessive animation and it can get pretty annoying after some time. What do other guys here think?

[life31]

Not quiet sure about what you are saying. Is it so? If yes ill have to think about my site. I have rescently hosted a site which has a flash header and also has a small flash animation on my index page as well as one inner page.

But it got indexed into google within a week i should say. But since you have raised a point it mak me feel a bit unsecure. Will try to find more about it .

[nursehk]

it depends on the theme of your site if it requires animation because if you have animation to your site it would make it more lively.

[life31]

Originally Posted by nursehk

it depends on the theme of your site if it requires animation because if you have animation to your site it would make it more lively.

Ya thats right. Even i use flash on my sit for the same reason.

But what i have observed is people preffer normal sites over flash and other animated sites. It does appear good at first site or first visit but if any one stays there for long some people start getting annoyed with those moving features and animation.

It also does depend on person to person.

[titaniumhijau]

Nothing wrong with that. Its up to you. If your space and bandwicth fine, and your site can run and loading smooth. Its fine to use animation in your site.

[adriel11]

The loading time depends more upon your web hosting service and the bandwidth they provide, rather than the actual content of your site. animation and flash does slow down the loading speed a bit, but if your host is good, visitors never notice anything bad happening with loading time. Its not true, what you have said about search engines.

[life31]

According to what i know it does affect SEO.

I mean not in this case whith just a flash header but in case if the whole homepage or indexpage is of flash then it preferably will have some bad effects on SEO.

[huskies1]

Animaion does not work for every type of website. However, there are certain sites that are more interesting and attractive with animation. Of course, as mentioned sometimes pages do take longer to load when they have animation which can detract from the website.

[Surreal]

I guess it also depends on where you would categorize your audience. You probably wouldn't have animations on a businiess website dedicated to market trends with your main audience being CEO/Entrepreneurs. However you may have animations on a children's website to keep their attention.

[hwang]

Yup it does affect the SEO as well as the bots will not be able to read the wordings generated using animation. I guess I would prefer a more simple websites without animation just to make the page load faster as well.

[titaniumhijau]

Originally Posted by hwang

Yup it does affect the Search Engine Optimization as well as the bots will not be able to read the wordings generated using animation. I guess I would prefer a more simple websites without animation just to make the page load faster as well.

Yap. I agree. Never put any flash or multimedia at our site or blog. Thats just make our site looks heavy and will have problem when loading. I prefer to not use that.

[hwang]

It depends actually. Having flash means there's a way for interaction between your website and the visitors to make it attractive. But most often it has more downside value compared to the benefits of having one.