Good update, atleast a step in the right direction; the auto play was annoying... although it now looks like ford owns the page - guess they have a "look like you own the page" ad package...

- espn.com comes in at 213 objects, 200 images - and If I'm correct I have 1.3mb in size - this is horrible I used

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

I'm happy. They got rid of the auto-playing video side bar.

Thank god they did, I avoided ESPN.com like the plague just because of their annoying auto playing videos.

And I installed FlashBlock.

And showing every single score on the planet within the header. Now it's roughly half.

The individual sports pages are also much improved.

Any site that uses an interstitial on its homepage deserves to be beaten over the head. This breaks usability rules left and right.

Hopefully this is just for the launch of the site and not permanent.

With the removal of the auto playing video and cleaner overall design, this is definitely an improvement. We blogged about it a few weeks ago: http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/top-5-improvements-of-...

I love it. MAJOR improvement on the old version, even though I prefer sites like this to be aligned left.

I always keep my browser at 1024 wide so the fixed size is perfect for me.

They got rid of the flash sections that cycle through headlines, which was a major peeve of mine. I couldn't right click them to open in new tabs.

I've been using the beta for a while. It's changed a lot from the original implementation. I still hate how the two pulldown menus are right next to each other - try reaching "nfl" on the list of sports with the mouse coming from the top of the screen - it's an exercise in frustration.

Well, when the All Sports pulldown comes down, its NFL entry is in exactly the same place as the NFL toolbar entry, so it's no different. Kind of a nice touch.

Looks the same to me, except that I do not see any stories about New England Patriots post-season results this year.

The old ESPN site was just god-awful. This new one is better. I'll still probably never visit, but at least now I'll call it that "less awful site I never go to" instead of that 'horrible horrible site I never go to' :-).

It crashes my browser every time I visit. That's pretty annoying.

The background fade looks like hell at ~1600px wide and doesn't even matte to the correct color on the right. Guess color correction took a backseat to ad planning.

Editor's: thanks for cleaning this up and making it useful to HN. Sorry for the originally lame submission.

The new site seems to be even slower than the old one, which was a slug in its own right.

Possible due to higher traffic from people checking out the new site. Personally, I like it, especially compared to the old site (though I think they could do without one of the page-wide ads).

Looks like it was done by the same people who did IGN's new home page.

Not that great, but an improvement in its own right.