I think Jessel is talking about the video halfway own the page. It's lazy-loaded so when you scroll down a little bit it starts to play automatically and there's no way of skipping it or turning it off. You can only mute the thing.
It sucks.
And because it's the same ad every time I go to the page, I now am starting to avoid this page altogether. I will use other sites, or go straight to the standings page. The mlb page would often get me to click on article links, but a page like the standings won't get me to interact with anything beyond that page. This ad must be removed if you don't want to totally alienate your audience and continue to engage them.
Some other problems: I don't want to watch the video that comes after it at all. Why can't I choose not to watch this?
Additionally, I come on to the homepage to check the scores quickly. If I load the page and scroll down immediately (which is the most common thing I do) the lazy-loading of the scores module is blocked by the video module's loading. The perceived performance of the page is awful because it looks like you can't load a simple, text-based module in less than a second. The video module often takes 4-5 seconds, so I can't check the scores quickly. Don't get confused: I understand that you're not lazy-loading the scores module, you're just loading it asyncronously after the page loads. If I don't scroll down at all, the scores module will get loaded and the video player will not. In this case, the scores module shows up faster. But if I scroll down before either are loaded, the scores module's performance is inhibited by the video module's performance. Please fix this -- I'm going to other sites now to check scores, and that probably costs you about 50-100 visits per day.
Please tell the team that this is a P0. Mark it as a Sev1 and create a CMR so that people actually look at it. Thanks.
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May 22, 2012
