Snap is a Big Distraction in Site Usability

Snap.com provide capability to allow web viewers to get a image preview of pages behind the links. While it sounds like an advantage, in my experience it is a major distraction while viewing the site. Recently I was in Ryan Boren’s site which uses snap for link preview. The article was interesting but the big snapshots kept popping up. As my link isn’t superfast, it took sometime for it to display the image. It was very annoying as I was unable to easily read the site and I had to move the cursor carefully to avoid links!

So I tried to disable it for this site and later for all the sites. None of them worked! Even increasing the delay failed. I am using Firefox on Linux.

As far as I am concerned Snap is a useful idea which has been poorly implemented. I would recommend at this time that bloggers and website owners should consider removing it from their site for better user experience. Snap is better as a Firefox extension than a website javascript implementation. On websites it is just forced upon you whether you want it or not.