When websites are broken, reporting the problem doesn’t help

Am I the only one that seems to be experiencing more problems with websites than usual?

I've visited quite a few recently which just seem not to work. Others have issues with which I can identify the problem, but which are still ultimately broken.

One of the more common issues I find is that the URL for a site doesn't work, or at least only works when I use the full name. The core of the issue here is that modern browsers can be really convenient and let us just enter a word or domain fragment and we expect to end up at the site. Furthermore, most domain owners now realize that some people just like to use the domain portion without the hostname (www) to reach their sites.

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