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Music on the Homepage is a No No

4/5/2015

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Here are my top 3 reasons why you should not have music auto-playing on your webpage. And by auto-play I mean someone comes to your website and music is playing even though they did not hit a play button.
  1. Some of your potential clients may be nursing moms.  Nursing moms are often surfing the web while their baby takes a little nap at the breast. Music unexpectedly blasting from a phone will never be well received.
  2. Some of your clients may be at work and surfing the web (when they should actually be working).  If your website auto-plays music you just threw them under the bus.
  3. It is just annoying, and sometimes even shocking, when music comes out of your computer and you were not expecting it.
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It is ok to have music and videos on your website, I actually really encourage video!  But just make sure visitors have to click play.  This will decrease your bounce rate (I promise) as users are less likely to quickly close out of your website as fast as they can.
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