Comments on: Tip: Don’t make me type www

By: Kirk Jackson

Kirk Jackson — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:13:37 +0000

Martin: You’re probably aware, but the standard way of ‘canonicalizing’ is to make all your urls redirect to one ‘proper’ url (e.g. http://www.domain.co.nz).

Something Phil didn’t mention was that you really only want one url for your website to be indexed by search engines, as otherwise your google juice will get diluted. Canonicalizing means that only the one url gets indexed.

Kirk

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:25:34 +0000

While not having to type ‘www.’ is nice, there is at least one company that allows domain.co.nz but only has a certificate for http://www.domain.co.nz, and requires https, duh.

By: Will Croxford

Will Croxford — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:28:41 +0000

The one that bugs me is ravensdown.co.nz. Not only do they insist you use the www, they also want you to use IE. Have a look at it in Firefox…bad CSS alignment.

Why really interests me is why big companies like this don’t fix it as I pointed it out three years ago.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:05:19 +0000

at least ird.govt.nz is smart enough to add the www for you

By: Sam Law

Sam Law — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:52:05 +0000

I definitely agree, it’s a sure sign the site isn’t management by someone with a techie mind.

My second biggest complaint universally is dodgy/useless 404 pages, I ended up writing about it on my blog – http://www.dpixelblog.com/2008/08/crafting-the-perfect-404-page/ – but some of the biggest sites on the web (like youtube) have the most useless 404 pages.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:15:29 +0000

Ahmen brother.

By: Jack Pivac

Jack Pivac — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:34:19 +0000

dcc.co.nz
dunedin.govt.nz

I approached them about it (irritates me that much) and got this back:
“We are aware of the issues and our configuration reflects what we want.”

By: Nik Wakelin

Nik Wakelin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:49:29 +0000

msd.govt.nz

@ben: I’ll see your theme and raise you the largest govt. department :p

By: Warren

Warren — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:58:48 +0000

And how much money have these companies spent on their websites.

Better go check mine….

By: Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:52:10 +0000

wdc.govt.nz
waimakariri.govt.nz

notice a theme here?

By: Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:48:20 +0000

hurunui.govt.nz

By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:30:57 +0000

I emailed graysonline.co.nz about this in 2006, it took them a couple of years to fix it, it used to go to graysonline.com.au which is arguably even worse than address not found.
cricinfo.org is another good one, that is the url for editors of the site, http://www.cricinfo.org get’s you to cricket scores ( you could argue it’s a redirect to www,cricinfo.com, but it start start out as .org ).

By: Zavier

Zavier — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:20:57 +0000

We use Australian Air Express for our deliveries.

aae.com.au is a culprit

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:20:28 +0000

acc.co.nz