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When I visit it, the lower half of the screen makes a jump to the left after about 3 seconds. That already makes me feel uneasy.

In the 'Tutorial' section, everytime I click on an entry on the right, the screen at first jumps up for a fraction of a second before jumping down again.



Sounds like there might be something seriously wrong with your computer, your device, network or your browser then. What’s your set up?

I just looked at it on like four different devices and didn’t have any problem. It works perfectly for me on Windows 10 with Chrome, Mac High Sierra/Chrome and iOS 11 / Safari iPad and iPhone.

If you don’t believe me, I will post a screen cast on imgur if you’d like.


Yup, screen cast please.

You can see the jumping on webpagetest.org:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=180616_B...

With a slow connection, on the initial load the first jump happens at 6s and another one at 8.5s.

When I click on one of the links, it happens much faster because everything is cached. But I can still see the jump everytime I click a link to a new section in the tutorial.

I don't think the type of browser plays a role here. I get the glitches on Chrome and Firefox. And testing it on browserling.com shows that they also happen on Internet Explorer.


The jump is the anchor '​#​h​o​w​-​t​o​-​f​o​l​l​o​w​-​a​l​o​n​g'. A mechanism that's existed since the beginning of the internet. https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/1995-archive/Elements/A.html ‍️


Anchors by themselves do not make browsers jump in erratic ways. Try Wikipedia. No glitches when you click on sections.


Here it is on my iPhone, arguably the slowest device that I tried it on - https://imgur.com/a/Wf2bXmq




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