[Sigia-l] Info on splash pages and flash movie intros

[Bruce Morrison]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 09:52, Bruce Morrison wrote: 
> Personally I hate splash pages and flash movie intros, I know they are
> bad and why but is anyone aware of any studies or statistics that relate
> to how users deal with them. I'm especially after any ammo as to the
> numbers of visitors that leave a site without getting past them.

The closest I have come to stats is New Survey Results: 80% of Consumers
Hate Flash Intros
http://www.marketingsherpa.com/sample.cfm?contentID=2524

I've read many of the articles that say they are bad but I'd like to be
able to point to an article that contains some "hard" evidence that
these evil things effect visits to a site.  

Cheers
Bruce http://www.designit.com.au/