The Developers try to limit the amount of code in their website to make their websites load faster. (Considering that Onion Routing consists of 3+ proxy servers between you and the website’s main server, which drastically limit connection speed).
They also try to use legacy code and formatting so that any computer or end-user can access their site, without any formatting problems.
Read Also: The True Origin Of Cancer And Some Other Myths
If they used brand-new layouts like google docs or YouTube, then the loading time would be higher, making navigation rather painful.
Also, because of the built-in security functions on the Tor Browser, it would block most of the ‘new’ code anyway. (Such as HTML5 and JavaScript).
Using complicated coding and a plethora of scripts would result in a beautiful website, like below, only the connection speed will be crippled and only parts of the website will actually load.
People on the dark web don’t care about how pleasant the websites look, they only care about the information and practicality of them.
