pagination
the act of paginating a web-page, or a web page that has been paginated.
basically, instead of putting an entire article on a single web page, to paginate is to spread the article across multiple pages. a good example is a news article containing 12 images, but each image is on a single web page, forcing you to click the ‘next’ b-tton 11 times in order to see all the images.
this practice is often used by websites as a means of click-baiting the viewer; by forcing you to keep loading new pages, you’re spending longer on the website – and by extension, viewing more advertis-m-nts on the site, which leads to ad revenue.
unfortunately, this is inconvenient for the end user; particularly if they’re browsing on mobile device and the connection is slow, as it greatly increases the amount of time spent waiting for pages to fully-load. it also means more mobile data is used overall as the entire page has to be reloaded each time you click the ‘next’ b-tton.
my favourite news site introduced pagination to their articles, so i can’t be bothered to use it any more.
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