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Filed under: Utilities, Web services

Test your site's load time with Webslug


There are a lot of ways to measure how quickly your site loads, but most of them aren't going to be reflective of how your users perceive your load time. Webslug is a tool that attempts to give you a read on the load time from request to fully-loaded. You can put in one URL or compare two URLs in a head-to-head battle.

It's nice to see a web-based tool to measure this stuff, no downloads required. I'm not sure how useful Webslug's data is, compared to the data you might get from other testing methods. There are aggregated numbers for different browsers and OS's, but those leaderboards might not mean much on their own. If you test Webslug, let us know whether you find it useful in the comments.

Filed under: Utilities, Blogging, Productivity

Making comparison charts is easy with Tablefy

Making a point-by-point comparison chart is a pain in the butt. It requires fiddling with spreadsheets, formatting lots of individuals cells and hoping the results are easy to read. Tablefy takes all the mess out of comparing things. Just put in your data and it'll do the rest. You can even embed pictures and YouTube videos with little fuss.

The example charts look sharp and professional, and there are some neat little auto-formatting quirks that save you time. If you're doing a comparison that uses a lot of "yes" and "no" -- a feature comparison between two apps, for example -- Tablefy will automatically color the yes and no cells for you, making them easier to distinguish. Although the charts are made to be embedded on your own site, there are lots of examples to browse and vote on at the Tablefy site.

[via Webware]

Filed under: Utilities, Productivity, Web services

sizeasy: Figure out how big it is before you buy it

sizeasysizeasy is one of those simple things that seem kind of obvious but which I probably never would have thought of myself. It's a web service that does one thing: Helps you visualize the size of things when shopping online. You can enter the dimensions of any number objects and then pick a familiar object to compare them to, like a pack of playing cards, a wine bottle, or a standard sheet of paper. It will show a representation of all of the objects alongside eachother in 3D as well as top, side, and front views. The concept is probably best demonstrated on sizeasy's "featured comparisons" page, which compares the sizes of an iPod, iPod nano, Microsoft Zune, and a deck of cards (at right--the orange one is the Zune). sizeasy lets you enter dimensions in a variety of scales (feet, millimeters, etc.), and though I do wish it had some bigger objects to compare things to, it's definitely hand and is going straight into my bookmarks.

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