The benchmark for a reasonable site.Other than the image still loading, everything is visible and works.

BTW, the image took about 1 minute to upload.

I see a lot of this effect where while the page is half way loaded, the wrong styling is in effect. In this case, at least the text is not black on black while this happens.

AFAIK, no sane use of CSS can lead to this effect. You have to go out of your way to arrange for part of the CSS to load late.

Attack of the web fonts. It's not worth being able to see text unless it's displayed just right.

This is actually a good day for Google Plus; more than 50% of the time trying to load a page results in some kind of SSL timeout problem.

More web fonts. It was really better 2 seconds before this screenshot, when the fixed width font had not yet loaded either, and I was looking at an abstract design of boxes, reminiscent of a 80's video game.

Entire page is completely loaded and functional ... except for the only thing on it I want to read.

Presumably at some point in the next 10 minutes or so, a scrap of text will finally appear on this page. I'll read it in about 1 minute, and move on.

But until then, I get to spend many minutes staring at over-designed social network share buttons and gratuitous images!

Special bonus points: The text turns out to be loaded by javascript, so view source doesn't even let me bypass the crud.