{"id":1248,"date":"2011-06-15T06:02:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T10:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2011-06-15T06:09:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T10:09:59","slug":"using-firebug-to-profile-a-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Using Firebug to “profile” a web site"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefox has long been much more “open” at allowing you to see everything a web server is doing (things like not allowing a web site to disable right click without your permission).<\/p>\n

Firefox has an addon called Firebug that is extremely helpful and interesting.\u00a0\u00a0 It may be a little on the geeky side, but even if you aren’t a geek, you can still see a lot of useful information.<\/p>\n

To use it:<\/p>\n

Install Firefox browser if you don’t already have it:\u00a0 Firefox<\/a><\/p>\n

Install the Firebug addon:\u00a0\u00a0 Firebug<\/a><\/p>\n

Turn on Firebug from the Tools menu in Firefox<\/p>\n

Go to a web page and press F12<\/p>\n

See all the Sekrit stuff the evil web site is doing….\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you go to<\/p>\n

http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/streaming-radio-stations.php?formatid=1<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

the what’s on now page, you’ll see that my web site doesn’t cause your browser to do anything unexpected:<\/p>\n

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every single request goes to my web server.\u00a0\u00a0 The page downloads completely in a little over 2 seconds.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It starts to load the web page, sees I use a .css style sheet, and then starts to see I have about 25 different graphics, which my server returns in parallel.\u00a0\u00a0 The “sneakiest” thing it does is near the end it loads up countdown.js, which is a javascript thing that was counting down the number of seconds until May 21, 2011 and the Rapture.<\/p>\n

Now let’s compare that to a\u00a0“free” ustream player:<\/p>\n

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This is only the first page…\u00a0\u00a0 Translating the Webspeak into English of who uStream has told that you’re watching that stream:<\/p>\n