Their site is pretty good. I just wish they'd TURN THE DAMN SOUND OFF for the little flash movies on each model's page. It's ANNOYING and loud. It either interrupts what I'm already listening to *by choice* or wakes up the whole house if I'm looking something up late and don't catch the volume in time.
The results in seconds. Blue bar is delay for model selector availability, red bar is delay for entire site to finish. See the link above for more details and graphs.
What I like about the Honda site, you can quickly pull up the specifications on all the cars. Some other autobrands make it difficult or next to impossible.
siegen wrote: No surprise here. Honda's website is also the fastest to load among all the major automakers. ...
Interesting how the Government Motors has the slowest websites. They must rely on a lot of flash. About six months ago, the ads GM was running of websites were causing my FireFox to freeze, or have a sever delay.
It was very annoying, and I never figured out a way around them. A flash programming bug I guess.
80honda wrote: What I like about the Honda site, you can quickly pull up the specifications on all the cars. Some other autobrands make it difficult or next to impossible.
Absolutely! I was looking for detailed specs. on the new Ford Mustang last week after an article I read triggered a curiosity. I left Ford's site 10 minutes later having not found my answer.
80honda wrote: What I like about the Honda site, you can quickly pull up the specifications on all the cars. Some other autobrands make it difficult or next to impossible.
Absolutely! I was looking for detailed specs. on the new Ford Mustang last week after an article I read triggered a curiosity. I left Ford's site 10 minutes later having not found my answer.
On the other hand I helped a friend find some info. on the specs. of a Civic VP about two weeks ago, I had my answer from Honda's site in literally 1 minute (granted I already knew where I was going).
80honda wrote: What I like about the Honda site, you can quickly pull up the specifications on all the cars. Some other autobrands make it difficult or next to impossible.
Absolutely! I was looking for detailed specs. on the new Ford Mustang last week after an article I read triggered a curiosity. I left Ford's site 10 minutes later having not found my answer.
I'm with both of you. Honda's site is not perfect, but it's the best I've found. Any time I visit other sites it takes me forever to find information, and sometimes I never find what I'm looking for. Ford's is pretty bad.
Honda uses Inquira for their search indexing, which is why you will find anything you are looking for if you use their search function.
When we were in the process of building demos for our budget pitch, I used Honda's site for examples of how the search tech worked. We got the money, I was part of the team who implemented Inquira for my company, and still to this day support all aspects of it.
DCR wrote: Honda uses Inquira for their search indexing, which is why you will find anything you are looking for if you use their search function.
I don't think I've ever used the search engine on their site. There's really no need to. All the information is available and presented logically. Even at hondanews.com information is well organized.
The only time I've had to use search is when looking for things on Honda's world site; like an IMA cut-away or history of vtec article.
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