Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
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Re: Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
#2Hi, I didn't get much feedback when I posted last time so I'm giving it another try. This is aimed at helping web developers follow SEO, performance and security best practices so I'd love to know what the community thinks. Can you think of any changes that would make Checkbot more helpful? Did you notice any bugs? Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
#3Hi, I have downloaded already but didn't test it yet. I will test as soon as I can.
Re: Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
#4Hi, I didn't get much feedback when I posted last time so I'm giving it another try. This is aimed at helping web developers follow SEO, performance and security best practices so I'd love to know what the community thinks. Can you think of any changes that would make Checkbot more helpful? Did you notice any bugs? Thanks!
Cool, I'm checking it out right now. Can you share what your tool provides that others don't?
Re: Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
#5I rapidly tested it. It's staying on my chrome. Good Job.
Re: Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
#6Hi, I didn't get much feedback when I posted last time so I'm giving it another try. This is aimed at helping web developers follow SEO, performance and security best practices so I'd love to know what the community thinks. Can you think of any changes that would make Checkbot more helpful? Did you notice any bugs? Thanks!
Cool, I'm checking it out right now. Can you share what your tool provides that others don't?
The major one is that instead of manually checking pages one at a time, Checkbot lets you easily test 1,000s of pages in a few minutes to root out issues you'd normally miss. As you're doing web crawls from your own machine, you can also crawl any site you want as often as you want including localhost/development, staging and production sites. This lets you identify issues early and confirm fixes during development before problems go live.
Re: Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool, I'm checking it out right now. Can you share what your tool provides that others don't?
The major one is that instead of manually checking pages one at a time, Checkbot lets you easily test 1,000s of pages in a few minutes to root out issues you'd normally miss. As you're doing web crawls from your own machine, you can also crawl any site you want as often as you want including localhost/development, staging and production sites. This lets you identify issues early and confirm fixes during development b…
Who’s the customer you have in mind who will want to do this for thousands of pages?
Re: Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
#8Very cool.
I noticed that it's mangling some of my URLs, though.
`/!0ead1aEq` is getting turned into `/%210ead1aEq` (the exclamation point is getting percent-encoded), which leads to a bunch of spurious 404 errors.
Re: Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
#9Very cool. I noticed that it's mangling some of my URLs, though. `/!0ead1aEq` is getting turned into `/%210ead1aEq` (the exclamation point is getting percent-encoded), which leads to a bunch of spurious 404 errors. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.3
Ah, thanks a good bug report! I'll get this fixed.
Re: Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool, I'm checking it out right now. Can you share what your tool provides that others don't?
The major one is that instead of manually checking pages one at a time, Checkbot lets you easily test 1,000s of pages in a few minutes to root out issues you'd normally miss. As you're doing web crawls from your own machine, you can also crawl any site you want as often as you want including localhost/development, staging and production sites. This lets you identify issues early and confirm fixes during development b…
Interesting. So the intent is to tackle problems before deployment. Do you plan on any devtools integrations so it can be used as part of an automatic CI/CD process? Also, does Checkbot dig into all dependancies or skip them like some others?