Commentary on the original top 10 usability mistakes in web design - is usability spot usable?

Now that we have looked through the original top 10 usability mistakes in web design by Jakob Nielsen (1996) it is yet again time to see how this usability blog would do when evaluated against these original web usability mistakes, seasoned with some explanations and commentary:

1. Using frames: Nope, no frames used here. And if Blogger used frames, I wouldn't be here in the first place.
   
2. Gratuitous use of bleeding-edge technology: Nope, nothing here could be considered to be very much of bleeding-edge technology. No Flash based menus or chat-boxes or Twitter feeds.
   
3. Scrolling text, marquees and constantly running animations: No scrolling texts or marquees or elaborate animations that would make you feel like being in 90s disco.
   
4. Complex URLs: No way. As mentioned in the commentary, Blogger is almost (but not quite) exemplary for having URLs that us mere humans can actually decipher.
   
5. Orphan pages: Not a chance. There are navigational aids (chronological menus, tag search and normal search) and the blog banner links back to index page... except when you already are at index page when there is no link, which is a bit surprising.
   
6. Long scrolling pages: No horizontal scrolling necessary. Pages listing many recent posts can get quite long and require vertical scrolling, but that shouldn't be that big of a problem any more, especially with all the aforementioned navigational aids.
   
7. Lack of navigation support: Not a problem here. All those previously mentioned navigational aids provide good support for navigation.
   
8. Non-standard link colors: Links look like links and they have standard and distinct color, but visited links don't seem to change their colors. So bit of a problem here and I have to see if I can do something about it.
   
9. Outdated information: No outdated information here since this blog is relatively new and since blog posts are not usually meant to be modified after they are posted.
   
10. Overly long download times: Shouldn't be a problem here, since there are not many or big pictures, Flash, Java or Shockwave applets. Your mileage may vary if you have dial-up connection.
    

Overall, Usability Spot seems to do quite well when compared to the original list of usability mistakes in web design, which of course is not saying much. When it is time to do a commentary on more recent top 10 web usability mistake lists, things might change a bit but hopefully not very much.: