RE: [WSG] slightly OT web page analyser service

2004-03-21 Thread theGrafixGuy
I use this tool a lot when I am optimizing my code to see how much I saved (every byte adds time!). Using this tool, you can see just how much fat there is in your code. I have literally shaved off 50% off of some pages. Unfortunately, while it is possible to build a web page that will get

Re: [WSG] slightly OT web page analyser service

2004-03-21 Thread Robert Moser
Neerav blurted out: This maybe OT, but should be useful to all web developers on the list, because a site ight well be standards compliant but if it takes 30 seconds to load than its still failing ... I wouldn't say it was offtopic. Something like this could be used to demonstrate the

RE: [WSG] slightly OT web page analyser service

2004-03-21 Thread Jason Turnbull
Robert Moser wrote: Something like this could be used to demonstrate the advantages of using CSS vs table layout. The only problem I can see is images referenced in the CSS are not taken into account Jason * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] slightly OT web page analyser service

2004-03-21 Thread Hugh Todd
Nor is the fact that stylesheets (and images, for that matter) are cached. You're only comparing a first hit on one page. One of the beauties of CSS is that once you're past that first page, and into other pages on the site, you're not going to be downloading table code again and again and

RE: [WSG] slightly OT web page analyser service

2004-03-21 Thread theGrafixGuy
I think the reason for that is that the structure of the page is built and the images can d/l while the the content is in place and the reader can begin seeing something atleast. This tool (which I discovered last month as part of a plug-in for Mozilla and Firefox) sold me the rest of the way on