I’m taking a bit of time to mess around with some toolbar and desktop extensions, and I’m just having so much fun with the firefox Web Developers toobar extension (thanks Dennis). Now, this is probably old hat to most of you and you are chuckling into your hats, but, did you know that you can use it to find out things like …
- The New York Times front page takes 81 http requests to load 461249 bytes that would take 6 minutes to load on a 14.4 modem?
- they hit you with 28 cookies
- whitehouse.gov hits you with zero cookies (surprising, no?), but it’s not XHTML compliant (hah)
- Lavalife’s landing page loads just 2644 bytes with 5 http requests
I just can’t stop going to various sites, seeing which ones use tables, how they each use css and frames, seeing all the errors. What fun! Of course you can do this stuff without the toolbar — the speed stats are a free web app, and you can get the cookie info from your browser. But having them all right on the toolbar makes it so easy.
Next on the list, yahoo and google desktops
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