The recent topic “Think about links” and one comment to it inspired me to my first mini-post.

Logo - link to home. Is it always?

Removing the link to the home from the logo generates a mode when working with the site: there is a link there, then there is no link. Having a mode is bad for usability.

The easiest scenario:
The user from the search engine gets to the site and does not know for sure whether the main page (but notices that after the domain / something is: the same default.html is suspicious), but wants to start with the main one. Knowing that usually the link to the logo leads to the main page, he clicks on the logo (or analyzes the reaction to the hover - the script will be a little different with comparison of URLs ...) and there are 2 possible scenarios:

1. If the page is overloaded - he is sure that this is the main one. It's good. It does not even matter that the page itself was loaded: he confidently quickly clicked and got the expected result , often he didn’t even look at the page that he got from the search engine, but immediately looked for the way to the main page, so he didn’t notice anything.
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2. If there is no response to a click, then a banal dilemma arises which has to be resolved: either this is already the main one (what else you need to check then by urly, then by searching the house / home / home on the page), or it is given with a simple and simple idea. maybe these m *** ki didn’t make the logo a link to the main one ”, and again it starts looking for the same house ...
   Solving such a problem often annoys the user.

In general, the consequence of the presence of such a mode of the logo-link is very unpleasant: if after the first click the user did not get the expected result , then he will most likely have an association like “logo most likely does not lead to the main one” and he will not click there anymore than the association “probably, they read Sami_znaete_kogo and on other pages they probably have a logo leading to the main one”, while at the same time they will look for an old proven house / home / home.

In my practice, I will say that I have been able to remove a working link from the main one at the request of a “well-read” customer.