Should one page websites have a menu and a scroll to the top button?
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Those scroll-to-top links/buttons have always seemed a waste to me, adding page weight and visual clutter. I never use them on my sites and have almost never used them when browsing, IIRC, in decades of surfing...
What are we really trying to do here? Help the user avoid scrolling? The user is already used to scrolling for hours and hours on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube just to name a few, Reddit too. The user will spend 30 seconds on average on any given informative website like my cousin's website, does wasting a few seconds of scrolling matter that much if you're already wasting hours doing the same activity on other websites?
Besides, if you think about it, scrolling is faster than using the menu or clicking the scroll to the top button, if you think about the action from start to finish, clicking on a mobile menu, waiting for it to open, and then clicking on a link. Or locating a small scroll to the top button on mobile then clicking on it and sometimes the click doesn't work because the finger is too big for the button.
What do you think?