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Do badly designed websites give you spots too?
We're not talking about HTML internals now, but simply the view a user gets. Ridiculous numbers of links and forms, images, frames, long pages... issues affecting the likelihood of a page being useable for humans.
Measly Mouse analyses pages for these basic signs of user (un)friendlyness. She stores her findings in a database to give you the Measly Mouse Top 10 of the worst pages.
Enjoy! Measly Mouse.
P.S. I'm not really sick. Like with websites, it's all in the make-up!

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This is the live Measly Mouse Top 10 of the worst pages:
RankingScorePageAnalysedRequestsRedirectsImagesLinksBytes
13402899http://marc.theaimsgroup.com:80/26 Jul 2009301283115182419
21673861http://www.zappos.com:80/n/bl30 Jun 20082011501134789
31040576http://gsp.ro:80/7 Aug 2008201733287936
4898004brynmosher.com9 Jul 20083501726118740
5837095http://slashdot.org:80/9 Jul 2008201390435687
6746637http://genealogy.sambler.eu:80/database8 Aug 200979177252407693
7745901http://www.yahoo.com.au:80/23 Jun 2009311577151981
8737613http://www.youmago.ro:80/browse/view/27 Jun 200820162298637
9559272http://www.sbs.com.au:80/29 Jun 2008201343205992
10549078http://www.topstocks.com.au:80/stock_dis17 Jul 2008201339199894
The database currently contains 825 entries.

The scoring formula is BYTES + ((REQUESTS + LINKS) * 1024) where:
BYTES  is the total page content including stylesheets, images, etc.
REQUESTS  is the total number of requests required (including redirects) to get all page content.
LINKS  is the total number of clickable items on the page, including forms fields.
The rationale is that all requests take time and more links make a page less userfriendly.
Naturally every page contains some, it just gets bad if there are very many.


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