What do you think of single page websites?

Single pages are good when your displaying a single category of items. Multiple pages are nice to organize your content in tabs. Looks cluttered and unorganized in my opinion if you have a lot of stuff. You could possibly save on load time with multiple pages depending on how much and/or what your displaying.

If your page has defined a limited number of interactions or categories, it can be an excellent option, but if your page will have a lot of elements and properties, the problem will be that it is likely that during development and maintenance you will get confused if you do not perform an efficient management of the code, technologically speaking you can do with similar technology huge sites of a single page, the user will not notice much the difference

I do not think there is a problem with single page websites, why would there be?

It is good if you are not aiming organic traffic. I am telling this because in one page, there is not much area to add on screen for SEO goals.

Most of the websites I do nowadays are microsites, they are great because they require very little work

Single page websites are just good for presenting professional service like consultants and the like. The about page and what have you. But in order to rank and be recognized by search engines, you will need to do more than that. Maybe add some blog component on it. So that dynamic content can be posted regularly on the blog.

Single Page Websites or Parallax websites are good for shot-term events or general information but if you want traffic to your website then don't go for them because you will suffer a lot in terms of SEO.

05-10-2017, 05:37 AM

scriptstealer69 Wrote: I created a personal website that is a single page and uses nice auto scrolling to navigate to different parts of the page. Like when you click on a navigation button in the header bar, it scrolls down to that section of the page. It is a very simple site, but it's clean and lightweight. What do you guys think of this style of website? Are there any cons that I haven't thought of?

honestly, I dont get them, what kind of site is this, which gives only one block to each thing, and a personal account? I think its better to do a lot of pages, its just more attractive, single-page only for landing pages ....

It depends on what the website should represent. I think its a nice modern way to create cheap projects

I definitely agree with Maxcoder, single page sites are well suited to landing pages. When users are going to have to actually navigate the site, and may want to get from one part of the site to another very quickly, single page sites can feel like they are slowing the user down.

I think that single page sites are great, especially for requiring fewer clicks and actual interactions in order to create engagement, but there are definitely specific use cases and there are still cases where single page sites are not appropriate.