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Checkbot vs TraceView: What are the differences?
Developers describe Checkbot as "Checkbot will boost the SEO, speed & security of your site by testing for broken links, duplicate content, invalid HTML/CSS/JavaScript, insecure pages, redirect chains and more". Checkbot is a powerful website auditing tool for Chrome that will boost the SEO, speed and security of your site. In a few clicks, test 100s of pages at once for broken links, duplicate content, invalid HTML/CSS/JavaScript, insecure pages, redirect chains and 50+ other website issues. Test unlimited sites as often as you want including local development sites to keep on top of problems and stop critical issues going live. Checkbot has a rating of 4.9 out of 5 on the Chrome Web Store and is being used by over 15,000 active users. Join them now and start improving your website today!. On the other hand, TraceView is detailed as "Ridiculously Detailed Application Monitoring". Expose everything, from the webserver to database, cache and API calls. The core technology is based on X-Trace, a distributed tracing framework that’s served as the inspiration for companies like Google and Twitter.
Checkbot and TraceView can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Checkbot are:
- Investigate issues: Track down problems with convenient shortcuts to display incoming links to a URL, page source code, URL response headers, redirect chains and more.
- Explore your site structure: Browse all URLs found during a crawl. Examine internal links, list all image/JavaScript/CSS files, review non-indexable pages, explore redirects and more.
- Check private & local sites: Check your site in all stages of development by crawling staging and local sites, password protected pages and sites on private networks.
On the other hand, TraceView provides the following key features:
- Track every machine involved in a transaction and identify bottlenecks in a single click.
- Isolate interesting calls and drill down to the line of code and machine it ran on.
- Tie together code and infrastructure metrics with database, service, and cache calls, all in the context of a single transaction.
Pros of Checkbot
Pros of TraceView
- The heatmap helped me isolate DB related issues5
- Heatmap helped me find a Tomcat Memcached problem2