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The Request Map Generator is a terrific tool. Itβs made by Simon Hearne and uses the WebPageTest API.
You pop in a URL, it fetches the page and maps out all the subsequent requests in a nifty interactive diagram of circles, showing how many requests third-party scripts are themselves generating. Iβve found it to be a very effective way of showing the impact of third-party scripts to people who arenβt interested in looking at waterfall diagrams.
I was wonderingβ¦ Wouldnβt it be great if this were built into browsers?
We already have a βNetworkβ tab in our developer tools. The purpose of this tab is to show requests coming in. The browser already has all the information it needs to make a diagram of requests in the same that the request map generator does.
In Firefox, thereβs a little clock icon in the bottom left corner of the βNetworkβ tab. Clicking that shows a pie-chart view of requests. Thatβs useful, but Iβd love it if there were the option to also see the connected circles that the request map generator shows.
Just a thought.
This was originally published on my site.
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