Random Monday : Paessler Site Inspector - Webpage Analysis Tool

Monday, September 15th, 2008, 12:00 amRoys

Site Inspector is a freeware application developed by Paessler AG which provides very comprehensive statistics about any website.

Firstly, it allows you to view any page on the web exactly the way it would look like under Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox (Firefox must be separately installed)

All server requests taken to load your page, from the retrieval of local or external images to scripts for third-party widgets and ads, are displayed for those interested in understanding and optimizing the loading time of their sites.

Not very promising: 7 seconds to load the main page of www.downloadmunkey.net in Internet Explorer when uncached

More information on the page itself can be gleaned from the items under the Page Analysis tree such as the links, metatags and the source code for the current page as well as that of external scripts linked from that page.

Within Site Inspector itself, there are additional inbuilt tools to check the DNS or the domain information of the site that you’re analyzing via WHOIS.

A host of other third party tools can be assessed under the Online Tools section although the links to several tools are already broken. Some of the working ones include the WayBack Machine, Alexa and WebScale Speed Test.

You can customize the current list of online tools by adding new links or remove existing ones if you so wish by selecting File > Preferences… > Online Tools.