Why don't websites immediately display their text these days?
This stuff is seriously irritating to me as well.<p>The other thing that is irritating is websites that take so long to render they freeze up my mouse and computer, rendering interaction with their website useless for 10 seconds. It's not like I'm on an old machine either. I tend to show my appreciation by clicking the little "x" on the tab that corresponds to the webpage.<p>There really isn't any good excuse for this stuff: I've seen quite a few sites that clearly use heavy javascript that render almost instantly. There is no reason that a blog or simple site should take a long time to render.<p>There seems to be a trend of making things "awesome" with no consideration of user-experience and usability, and frankly,  the designers and programmers who do this stuff make the good programmers look bad and ultimately hold back the progress of the web.<p>And I don't use Google Fonts either because I'd rather have my fonts installed locally.