Rackspace’s perfect website formula??

Yesterday Rackspace published their formula for the perfect website:

Pwebsite = { ((14.14* EaseNav) + (13.56*Speed) + (13.11*CleanDes) + (10.89*Func) + (10.89*Up)) - ((12.63*Pops) + (10.32*Ads) +(5.21*MultiM)) } / 6.26

Which is a slightly pretentious, and pseudo-scientific way of agreeing with Webreality’s philosophy of websites (we scored 93% for www.webreality.co.uk, which was quite gratifying). Here’s a better translation of Rackspace’s formula. Good websites should look like this:

  1. Very easy navigation
  2. Very fast page load
  3. Simple and clean design
  4. Easy and powerful functionality
  5. 100% available
  6. No pop-ups
  7. No (or very little) advertising
  8. Sparse use of Flash/multimedia

I’ll expand on some of these in future posts.

November 17, 2006 | Filed Under Google 

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