A spokesperson for King County said the new website templates "were designed to be user-friendly based on modern best practices. The goal was to simplify content for improved navigation, ADA access, and translations."
The county uses Google Translate for all languages other than English.
(emphasis mine)
One example of this was when the IT division determined that 90 percent of web traffic went through 10 percent of the pages on the site, and assumed it would be fine to "eliminate 90 percent of the pages and keep the 10 percent.
that were meaningful. ... Unfortunately, those assumptions weren't vetted."
this is a government services site, btw.
also it looks like complete shit. an absolute embarrassment for a county containing a city as big and rich as seattle. look at it: https://kingcounty.gov/en
