The act of paginating a web-page, or a web page that has been paginated.
Basically, instead of putting an entire article on a
single web page, to paginate is to spread the article across multiple pages. A good example is a news article containing 12 images, but each image is on a
single web page, forcing you to
click the 'next' button 11 times in order to see all the images.
This practice is often used by websites as a means of
click-baiting the viewer; by forcing you to keep loading new pages, you'
re spending longer on the website - and by extension, viewing more advertisements on the site, which leads to ad revenue.
Unfortunately, this is inconvenient for the end user; particularly if they'
re browsing on mobile device and the connection is slow, as it greatly increases the amount of time spent waiting for pages to fully-load. It also means more mobile data is used overall as the entire page has to be reloaded each time you
click the 'next' button.
