For people who totally lack musicality or suffer from very short memory, these loops may be adding some value. For all other surfers it's as amusing as the sound of a fly when you're trying to sleep. Up until now, web designers have used the absence of broadband as an excuse. However, I know that is not the entire truth. Both by my own experience and also talking to other composers and producers, I'm sure to say that music and sound always have played a second role in multimedia productions.
Clients can spend months yapping about moving pixels.
The sound design however, seldom gets any feedback at all. Most of the times it's even the first, rough sketches that are used in the final product. I get surprised. They're so easily impressed by things that sound, it makes me wonder if they spend all their time in libraries. I've got an exercise for you.