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Nice. very similar to Lighthouse https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/#devtools https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/#devtools

by ratata 9y ago

kaycebasques 9y ago
Which is also available in Chrome DevTools via the Audits panel.
- PudgePacket 9y ago
  I've never been able to use that, every time I run the test it says initial page load is 10s, but I'm running it against a static website hosted locally.. how is it taking so long? Even if I visited my site from the other side of the world over 3g it would be faster than lighthouse accessing it locally.
  - pimlottc 9y ago
    Part of the audit includes throttling your connection to simulate a device on a slower link. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/throttling.md https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/...
    - PudgePacket 9y ago
      Still couldn't account for 10s for 5kb of html, something must have been really wrong, maybe I configured it incorrectly.
wgjordan 9y ago
Similar feature-set at first glance, but not open-source, not free after beta ends, and created/maintained by an unknown solo developer. Nice site design, but I think the cards are pretty heavily stacked against this one.
- seanwilson 9y ago
  The big difference is Checkbot crawls whole websites as opposed to checking a single page at a time. The Checkbot interface is designed around helping you hunt down issues that impact groups of pages and pages you didn't think to check. For example, this lets you find duplicate title/description/content issues and root out pages with broken links and invalid HTML you don't look at often.
  - wgjordan 9y ago
    That does sound like a key differentiating feature, thanks for clarifying. While I'd probably prefer to hook up an open-source web-crawler to lighthouse (e.g., something like github/lightcrawler [1]), I could see SEO/marketing experts in particular paying for a user-friendly all-in-one solution like this versus cobbling something together from open-source tools. [1] https://github.com/github/lightcrawler https://github.com/github/lightcrawler
    - seanwilson 9y ago
      Yes, so I think the UI is a really important factor here in terms of productivity and ease of use. For example, after Checkbot has scanned your localhost/development site and identified a page has the same title as other pages, you can edit your site, hit the "recrawl" button for that page and confirm your fix worked in a few seconds. Users I've worked with so far have really appreciated this fast and simple workflow.

Nice. very similar to Lighthouse https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/#devtools https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/#devtools

by ratata 9y ago

Nice. very similar to Lighthouse https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/#devtools https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/#devtools

kaycebasques 9y ago

Which is also available in Chrome DevTools via the Audits panel.

PudgePacket 9y ago
I've never been able to use that, every time I run the test it says initial page load is 10s, but I'm running it against a static website hosted locally.. how is it taking so long? Even if I visited my site from the other side of the world over 3g it would be faster than lighthouse accessing it locally.
- pimlottc 9y ago
  Part of the audit includes throttling your connection to simulate a device on a slower link. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/throttling.md https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/...
  - PudgePacket 9y ago
    Still couldn't account for 10s for 5kb of html, something must have been really wrong, maybe I configured it incorrectly.

wgjordan 9y ago

Similar feature-set at first glance, but not open-source, not free after beta ends, and created/maintained by an unknown solo developer. Nice site design, but I think the cards are pretty heavily stacked against this one.

seanwilson 9y ago
The big difference is Checkbot crawls whole websites as opposed to checking a single page at a time. The Checkbot interface is designed around helping you hunt down issues that impact groups of pages and pages you didn't think to check. For example, this lets you find duplicate title/description/content issues and root out pages with broken links and invalid HTML you don't look at often.
- wgjordan 9y ago
  That does sound like a key differentiating feature, thanks for clarifying. While I'd probably prefer to hook up an open-source web-crawler to lighthouse (e.g., something like github/lightcrawler [1]), I could see SEO/marketing experts in particular paying for a user-friendly all-in-one solution like this versus cobbling something together from open-source tools. [1] https://github.com/github/lightcrawler https://github.com/github/lightcrawler
  - seanwilson 9y ago
    Yes, so I think the UI is a really important factor here in terms of productivity and ease of use. For example, after Checkbot has scanned your localhost/development site and identified a page has the same title as other pages, you can edit your site, hit the "recrawl" button for that page and confirm your fix worked in a few seconds. Users I've worked with so far have really appreciated this fast and simple workflow.