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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
15562744http://www.dedagaanbiedingen.nl:80/3 Apr 201129502942634991352
23752326http://www.dailyoffers.nl:80/3 Apr 201120802076862836870
33402899http://marc.theaimsgroup.com:80/26 Jul 2009301283115182419
41783358http://news.com.au:80/23 Feb 201190188780892478
51770139http://cnn.com:80/23 Feb 201114641414311179291
61673861http://www.zappos.com:80/n/bl30 Jun 20082011501134789
71040576http://gsp.ro:80/7 Aug 2008201733287936
8910719http://amazon.com:80/13 Oct 201162061269571775
9904897http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/3 Apr 201174370404415425
10898004brynmosher.com9 Jul 20083501726118740
The database currently contains 835 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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