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Posting Date: March 24, 2003
 

Web Page Analyzer -- "Enter a URL below to calculate page size and download time. The script sizes each individual element and finds the total for each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve your page download and display time."

 

  

Reader Comments...
 

Just for giggles, I dropped the site into itself. It only gave itself one caution:

"CSS_SIZE - Caution. The total size of your internal and external CSS is 1892 bytes, which is above 1160 bytes and less than 4K. Consider optimizing your CSS and eliminating features to reduce this to a more reasonable size."

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on March 24, 2003 11:23 PM


 

Giggle, giggle. :p

Posted by: MadMan on March 25, 2003 02:21 AM


 

I was looking for something like this. It's nice. But it doesn't take into account images used as backgrounds in a table cell.

Posted by: Chi Lambda on March 25, 2003 03:03 AM


 

I'm familiar with these types of services, but have found that NetMechanic's html check is superior. It provides all the same download statistics, but in addition to providing you with the bytes for each image, also displays potential byte savings from condensing graphics more. (It also displays code lines where height and width parameters are missing...)

Posted by: Frank on March 25, 2003 08:41 AM


 

I notice that the load times between it and NetMechanic are quite different. I get 1.23 seconds at 56K with it, whereas with NetMechanice I get 3.24 seconds at 56K. I do find it a somewhat useful and handy tool, though somewhat odd that it suggests that images be less than 1160 bytes each.

Posted by: Morris Cox on March 25, 2003 01:54 PM


 

The analyzer does not respect Robots.txt unlike Netmechanic's tool.

Posted by: on March 26, 2003 12:00 AM


 

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