Top menu VS side menu (Left Sidebar) [closed]

1. Which navigation bar is better?
2. What is left menu bar?
3. Why is the navigation bar at the top?
4. Should navbar be on left or right?

Which navigation bar is better?

Top navigation

Works well when there are not too many navigation items. Consider using primary top navigation for small, medium, and large websites, e-commerce, and web applications that don't have a hierarchical structure.

What is left menu bar?

The left navigation bar is the main menu to the SUSE Manager Web UI from where you load the Web UI pages. Expand. If you click the icon or the down-arrow of a menu entry, it expands this part of the menu tree without actually loading a page. Collapse.

Why is the navigation bar at the top?

The purpose of a navigation bar is to help your user browse through your website effortlessly. A navigation bar is usually placed at the top of your website. On a mobile phone, the navigation bar is usually placed on your website's top left and looks like a hamburger or, as typically referred to – a hamburger button.

Should navbar be on left or right?

Menus and navigation have traditionally been on the left, but many sites choose to put them on the right so that the content can have focus (on the left). So even on PC's there is no clear side which navigation should be on.