[thelist] websitegarage.com dead. now what?

[Simon Willison]

At 10:08 14/08/2002 -0700, Judah McAuley wrote:
>I wanted to check the weight of a page I was viewing so I went to my old
>standby, websitegarage.com.  It turns out they they are officially off
>the web as of tomorrow (9/15) and the tools aren't available as of
>today.  Well nuts.
>
>So I need an alternative that does roughly the same thing: feed it a URL
>and get back a breakdown of images, text, etc. and its size.
>
>I tried googling for "calculating page size" but didn't come up with
>anything useful.  Anyone have any favorite tools or better search phrases?

I have an IE bookmarklet that attempts to calculate page weight, but
unfortunately it only deals with the size of the HTML page and any images
included with the <img> tag - it doesn't include the sizes of CSS files,
external javascripts and background images attached using CSS. Still, you
might find it useful (word wrap warning):

javascript:void((function(){var
element=document.createElement('script');element.setAttribute('src','http://www.gazingus.org/js/pageWeight.js');document.body.appendChild(element)})())

Regards,

Simon Willison
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~cs1spw/blog/