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› July 8, 2002

New bookmarklet: Page Weight & Speed

  • Reported by francois

Thanks to Dave who responded straight away to my request to merge "Page Weight" and "Download Calculator" to yield Page Weight & Speed (IE only, drag this link to the browser Links bar.) Longer description here. Very useful, just a pity about the linked resource limitation.

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1. July 8, 2002 03:50 PM

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mini-d Posted…

Damn pretty good utilty. I wish this things become more like aplications... who install as a plug-in in mozilla browser or ie... prefferely in mac :D

2. July 9, 2002 12:55 PM

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kirkaracha Posted…

It doesn’t seem to work in IE5/OS9.

3. July 12, 2002 04:30 PM

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Chris Posted…

It doesn’t seem to work in IE5/OSX either. I’ve tried adding it to my own page, but it doesn’t work. I also tested out the one @ gazingus, and it doesn’t work either for me.

4. July 13, 2002 11:38 AM

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Nate Posted…

Ah, in related news, wiremine (july 9th 2002) has linked to this web site performance analyzer, which graphs and rates:
  • dns lookup time
  • connection latency
  • server silence
  • transmission speeds

5. July 13, 2002 04:20 PM

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Liorean Posted…

I can explain why it doesn’t work in IE Mac–it’s using a way of including a javascript source file looking about like this (taken from memory, so it’s not quite the code it actually uses)(elm=document.createElement(‘script’)).setAttribute(‘src’,/Insert string containing url here/)
document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)[0].appendChild(elm);
IE Mac doesn’t allow that method of adding a script element to a page, and thus never loads the script, which probably would work very well if it just was loaded.
I know of a fix for this in IE Mac though, looking like this: obj=document.createElement(‘div’); obj.innerHTML=’<script type=“text/javascript” src=“script.js”><\/script>’; document.body.appendChild(obj); (Hat tips: Sylloge) Possibly somebody (Dave?) could fix that into two different bookmarklets, depending on platform. I’m too tired to try right now.

// Liorean

6. July 13, 2002 04:51 PM

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Liorean Posted…

...or even a single bookmarklet with a browser detector in, if it can be managed within 600-or-so characters.
The problem with this approach is that it’s unreliable when it comes to future versions and quirks, but I’m sure that can be fixed somehow.

7. April 5, 2003 04:28 AM

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shitbox Posted…

FUK U!!!