Trying to scroll your website on a Mac trackpad causes it to jump around like crazy. Did you install some too-clever-for-its-own-good Javascript? (Has anyone else noticed this is an increasing - and annoying - trend?)
If you find yourself trying to "fix" a UI/UX in the browser itself, stop.
I don't care if you want 300ms faster clicks on mobile, or to force smooth scrolling in chrome, or to hijack right click for your sharing stuff, or whatever.
You are breaking stuff trying to do those things, and it's ruining my experience on your site.
If it's a clear win, they'll implement the behavior soon, and you'll be left with a broken site.
1. The loading animation. I did not wait for your page to load in order to wait for your page to load. Also, if I have JavaScript disabled or JavaScript breaks for some reason, all I can see is that loading animation - absolutely zero of your front page content.
2. The text scrolls up into the middle of the page. Nothing should move on your page without my permission.
3. The fading in/out red text. See 2.
4. The spastic dots/lines following the pointer around above the globe image. See 2.
5. As I scroll, the bar at the top hovers over the page content. This breaks PgUp/PgDn behavior, as it covers content, as the height of the page no longer matches the amount of the page that's actually legible. Also, the bar changes size and color. See 2.
6. You're using a custom font. Are the perfectly fine fonts already installed on my system not good enough? Must you really waste my bandwidth and slow down your page loading time for the sake of your brand? Fortunately, you're using one hosted by Google; I have `127.0.0.1 fonts.googleapis.com` in my hosts file, so it actually didn't effect me. I could still see it trying to happen when opening up Web Inspector, though.
7. I'm seeing your total front page weight as 1.82MB. global_map2.png is 512K. essentials.css is 468K - Jesus, that's a lot of CSS. Even the HTML file is 111K - apparently because you're inlining jQuery, on every page, forcing my browser to redownload it for every page load when it could just grab it from cache after the first one.
That's all I'll say for now. I need to get back to work. Hopefully this is of some help, though.
EDIT: Just to balance things out, here's a good thing - you're bouncing users to the HTTPS URL for your site, even when we're not logged in (or about to). Good!
#2-#4 - part of the animation effect.. agreed that it's annoying to some people.
#5 - I like the fixed menubar and find it useful, but maybe not everyone agrees!
#6 - Custom fonts are kind of a cool thing, but not 100% disagreed. Also, we've been trying to eliminate CDN material.
#7 - yeah, that's part of the site theme. :(
#8 :) thank you. We're using HSTS and passing lots of other good headers, too.
If you need a menubar, ok, write one. Just fix the pagination height so people can actually read your site.