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Re:CSS Stats by shdon on Monday November 24, 2014 @04:51PM (#8654941)
I get only blank pages returned. Assuming it has buckled under the onslaught of HN visitors, what does it show when it works normally?
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Re:CSS Stats by sorahn on Monday November 24, 2014 @05:24PM (#8655074)
Something like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vatqtaur20f35yi/Screenshot%202014-...

I found their github[1] and ran it locally. Worked perfectly.

[1]https://github.com/mrmrs/cssstats

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Re:CSS Stats by shdon on Monday November 24, 2014 @07:13PM (#8655553)
Cool, thanks. Those are some pretty big numbers. What kind of a site is it?

It is really interesting to see the variance, btw. Twitter, KickStarter and Bootstrap running at thousands of rules, Google and Wikipedia at under 200. And a whole bunch in the 500-1000 range, such as Facebook, Amazon and Mozilla. I'm actually surprised at the relatively low rule-count for Facebook and Amazon as both those sites always gave me the impression (perhaps mistakenly) of having more CSS rules than I could read in a lifetime. Conversely, Github and Stack Overflow have more rules than I would have expected.

I guess that just goes to show that CSS complexity and visual clutter do not necessarily correlate.

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Re:CSS Stats by reissbaker on Monday November 24, 2014 @07:24PM (#8655603)
Pretty sure the Facebook one is just checking their logged-out page, which is much more straightforward than the logged-in view. Logged-in I count ~144kb of CSS, which still isn't bad, but isn't as mind-bogglingly low.

Amazon is definitely impressive though!

(As are Stripe, Apple, and Airbnb, in basically that order.)

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Re:CSS Stats by sorahn on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @03:37PM (#8659570)
That site specifically was a porn site. Our 3.0 upgrade of the site involved a lot "get this working, NEXT!" so the CSS is kind of a mess. I've got a nice stat page to show me just how much of a mess now though!
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Re:CSS Stats by mrmrs on Monday November 24, 2014 @07:22PM (#8655597)
It looks like we have a bug and that we're not grabbing all of amazons css - just the first referenced stylesheet. Opening an issue on github. Thanks for the heads up.
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Re:CSS Stats by sorahn on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @03:38PM (#8659573)
This was happening to me too. I could see the output from node that said it figured out there were multiple stylesheets, but it didn't seem to care, and just went about its business showing the first one.
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Re:CSS Stats by NKCSS on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @05:25AM (#8657134)
Kudo's for the devs; it really was as simple as downloading the zip from github and issuing a install && start :) Pulled in phantomjs, etc. and just worked out of the gate :)

It still has some issues with style detection (as noticed in other comments), but once that gets fixed, I'll be sure to check back :) Nice project!

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Re:CSS Stats by mrmrs on Monday November 24, 2014 @05:34PM (#8655119)
Apologies for the downtime. Should be back up now.
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Re:CSS Stats by NKCSS on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @05:06AM (#8657082)
Still not loading here.
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Re:CSS Stats by shdon on Monday November 24, 2014 @07:16PM (#8655564)
It is. Thanks!
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Re:CSS Stats by riffraff on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @03:33AM (#8656865)
down again, 504 bad gateway
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Re:CSS Stats by tellor on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @02:49AM (#8656773)
same here
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