Greener Desktop

Just a brief note to mention that Webslug now has some new features.

• Paging of fastest and slowest site lists. Now you can find out where your site sits
• Fastest Browser list. How compare Chrome vs Firefox. Actually it seems as if it’s faster
• Fastest operating systems. It seems that Mac is quicker to load web pages. Who would have guessed that Win98 is the slowest?

That’s it for the moment. If you’re interested in what’s coming up for Webslug, check out the TODO list.

Wow. That’s all I can say after the “blogosphere” lit up last week when Ajaxian featured webslug as the “hot or not of performance websites”.

It’s amazing the amount of buzz, both computer and people generated that a respected blog like Ajaxian can generate.  Before I knew it webslug was number one for the term webslug on Google and Yahoo, up from about ten.

Here’s how the traffic went (note that the site had about 50 unique sites tested before it was featured on Ajaxian): (more…)