Time to abandon home page sliders for good

Our themes don’t have sliders… Because sliders suck.

• Only 1% of the people actually click on a slide, which almost always was the first slide;
• People simply ignore your slider, because it triggers banner blindness;
• They slow down your site, negatively impacting your SEO and conversion rate(!!);
• They don’t always work well on mobile devices,
• They push your content down, which Google recently mentioned yet again is not smart;
• It dilutes your message, because suddenly there are multiple messages on your homepage.

Convinced yet? Let’s abandon the notion of using slideshows/sliders/carousels on websites and make the web a nicer place to browse!