Find out useless, useful info about a web page with URL-info

by Brad Linder Jul 23rd 2008

Ever wonder which site provides a higher ratio of internal to external links, Engadget or Download Squad? Want to know if there's a hidden message in the headers of a web page? URl-info can help.

Here's how it works. Visit the site, enter a URL, and hit go. Pretty simple, eh? What you get is some basic information about the web page, including the server operating system, what kind of web analytics the site uses (although the only one we managed to detect was Google Analytics on a handful of sites), and a list of images and internal and external links on a site.

If you click the Images tab, you can scroll your mouse over the URLs of images to see thumbnail versions. The links tab provides a list of links and a nifty graphic showing the ratio of internal to external links. In other words, you can find a whole bunch of information you never really needed. But if you have nothing better to do with your day than try to dig up some stats about your favorite web sites, this is the tool for you.

[via Daily Gyan]

Tags: headers, url, url-info, urlinfo, web-sites

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Chris Allen said 2:51PM on 7-23-2008

the BBC won't be happy when they see this... they have clearly lifted the site header from the main BBC site... note the clock and coloured block behind it... www.bbc.co.uk (n.b., the bbc header colour varies)

Marc said 4:21PM on 7-23-2008

Thank's for your feed back,

This clock, the design and the header of bbc are very clean and useful. But if you think it's a bad idea (or an illegal copy) I could change this.

I try to make an useful app for all, without AdWords and free...

And thanks a lot for this article !!!

Marc
http://url-info.appspot.com/

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