What a $347B conglomerate holding company's web site looks like

Loads instantly, looks fine on mobile, the thing(s) you are probably interested in are linked right from the front page. As usual, Buffet is onto something here.

This might explain it. From the site source code for http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/sharehold.html

<META NAME="Template" CONTENT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\html.dot">

Unfortunately it does not pass the W3C Validator: https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkshir...

Not that surprising considering it doesn't really matter how outdated their website looks.

Stocks will still allow themselves to be bought by BSHW.

How did this make it to the front page? grin

See also: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

One thing I've noticed over the years is that a pretty design has very little correlation with the size, success, or market share of a company.

That's how you act when you have nothing to prove.

I like that they treat 'web' like an acronym.

The man lives in a house he bought decades ago. Did anyone expect he would be going bananas over the latest web trends?

Did no one read the legal disclaimer?

"linking to this website without written permission is prohibited."

I wonder what how the lawyer who wrote that expected people to navigate to the site.

It's the website equivalent of wearing socks and sandals to a Lamborghini dealership.

Now check what the website prominently linked to looks like: WWW.GEICO.COM

The insurance industry is currently in a fever pitch over "Digital Business," "IoT," "Wearables," "Disruption," "Millennials," "Big Data," "Social Media," "FinTech/Insurtech startups" ... Executives in blue suits, who in better times would have prided themselves in not knowing how to type, are falling over themselves trying to eek out 1% organic growth by trying to understand this whole Internet thing that's been all the rage lately.

Would they make more money with the latest Web 3.0 React SPA website that takes over your scroll wheel and loads megabytes of stocks photos showing happy rich people?

Another one I found amusing was the website of Jump Trading[1], an HFT firm. It's minimalist in a different way: there's very little content and, at first, I couldn't even find any links at all...

[1]: http://www.jumptrading.com/

Almost worse is the HBO site from just last year. They had hours of operation posted.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140208060432/http://www.homebo...

The best part is that the home page is 6KB or 4 Internet Packets :-)

The median webpage size is in the order or some 2MB

I wish more websites took this approach, especially news and information sites, I'm tired of pullng terabytes of pointless js and images just to skim a bad article behind clickbait.

Mind he takes a different approach behind the Berkshire Activewear link.

And their ad network pierces all adblockers - best site ever built?

I'm burying this submission despite the home team's love of plain-text websites, because its title is baity and the discussion is unsubstantive and unlikely to improve.

The greatest thing for me is that it still has an ad

Looks good. Simple, humble, to the point. It has a certain elegance that I like. It loads fast as well.

Aha factors fizzle out quickly. What they have for a holding company is appropriate and error-free.

I wonder if they charge Geico for the ad space ;)