3PO#fail chrome extension

Version: 1.0
3PO#fail
What happens to your site when 3rd party sites are down
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What is 3PO#fail?

3PO#fail is a developer tools chrome extension. it's a free extension , it has 28 active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 0.00 from 0 rated user, last update is 4340 days ago.


What’s new in version 1.0?

                See how your page loads when 3rd party JavaScript fails to load.

Example 3rd party scripts are those you include for social buttons like Facebook Like, Twitter, Google+ etc

Including these external JavaScripts in a blocking manner is a SPOF (Single Point Of Failure) for your site. This means an outage. You should always load these asynchronously.

Sites do go down. Even big ones. Or they fail to load for other reasons (e.g. corporate firewall blocking). You don't want your site to go down when a third party goes down.

// You want:
your outage = your outage

// as opposed to
you outage += Google outage + FB outage + Twitter outage + LinkedIn + .....

This extension helps you visualize the negative effects by redirecting recognized third party JavaScripts to a blackhole (http://blackhole.webpagetest.org).

The list of recognizes script include:

*://ajax.googleapis.com/*
*://apis.google.com/*
*://*.google-analytics.com/*
*://connect.facebook.net/*
*://platform.twitter.com/*
*://code.jquery.com/*
*://platform.linkedin.com/*
*://*.disqus.com/*

The extension stays dormant until you click the # icon. Then the extension starts listening to requests and blackholes the recognized ones. It shows a badge in the icon with how many scripts were blackholed and on mouseover shows you the URLs.

Regarding the name... 3PO = 3rd Party Optimization. And #fail is kinda obvious.            

How to install 3PO#fail?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.


Preview of 3PO#fail


Technical Features:

  • Latest Version: 1.0
  • Requirements: Windows Chrome, Mac Chrome
  • License: Free
  • Latest update: Friday, June 15th, 2012
  • Author: ssttoo

3PO#fail Available languages:

English.


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