Comments on: Webslug: The hot or not of website performance tools

By: justanothertechguy

justanothertechguy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:15:43 +0000

A few years ago I was working for a telephony company and the VP kept on harassing us on how fast/slow our site was taking to load. He kept on saying how much faster our competitors site was but really didn’t have concrete data to back it up.

I wish this site existed back then, it’s very useful.

By: Loganathan

Loganathan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:52:29 +0000

Good, it gives the fact .. i have tested few sites in it … great thanks.,

regards,
logudotcom

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:51:16 +0000

Cool! Webwait.com is actually a Rails app, I’ve been wanting to get stats on it since launch. One day!

By: margthetechie

margthetechie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:59:04 +0000

Very useful site. Surely d3x and matanlurey could clear the browser cache before they do the load time test on sites. It’s simple enough!

By: Claypl

Claypl — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:49:55 +0000

for website performance better check Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool

By: MorganRoderick

MorganRoderick — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:01:27 +0000

I find it more interesting that the same company offers websnapr, that allows you to create thumbnails of sites … which browsers do you think generates these thumbnails? I’d be very surprised if some, or all, the thumbnails are generated by visitors to webslug.

By: matanlurey

matanlurey — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:14:46 +0000

It would be interesting for the tests to include cached and non-cached versions for actual network loading and local loading (scripts and stylesheets).

By: d3x

d3x — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:25:44 +0000

I don’t think it’s a very appropriate system. The reason I am saying this is because, once the site is cached in a browser, you can continuously “battle” it against other sites that are not cached yet resulting in one website to win every time.

Also, if you compare one site with the same site, it loses and wins(over itself), this seemed to me like a bug. :p