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New Nibbler badges – HTML5, Twitter & ARIA 19 Jul 2013 | 07:27 pm
We’ve added loads of new badges recently, and you might have noticed the user leaderboards shuffling around as they’re claimed by users. HTML5 & ARIA badges We like to to reward websites built using...
Some very geeky jokes for web developers 2 Jul 2013 | 03:06 pm
Yesterday was international joke day, and we filled out Facebook page & Twitter with some of the best (and possibly worst!) geeky jokes for web designers & developers. Here’s some of the best: The be...
New Nibbler updates – Scrolling layout & mobile screenshots 30 Jun 2013 | 10:00 pm
We’ve got a few new updates to announce on Nibbler, our free tool for testing websites. In this recent update we’ve added a new report layout, a Twitter test & mobile screenshots! Scrolling layout I...
New Nibbler Twitter test 20 Jun 2013 | 07:16 pm
Adding to our suite of social media tests in Nibbler, we’ve just launched a new one that’s so simple you probably know how it works already. The Twitter test looks for Twitter accounts linked to from ...
Preview sites on mobile & tablet 6 Jun 2013 | 09:37 pm
Sitebeam now shows how tested sites look on mobile and tablet. Run a website report as usual, when the report is finished, click the “Mobile” option in the menu. If you’re not a Sitebeam user already,...
Don’t do “skip to content” links wrong 22 Apr 2013 | 03:28 pm
In the last few months I’ve been doing a lot of research on how blind users use webpages using screenreaders, including spending a lot of time blindfolded and using these for myself. I discovered a fe...
Test your website in the dark! 1 Apr 2013 | 11:45 am
Today we’ve made a new test live on Nibbler that will allow you to test your websites in the dark. It’s called the “Darkness” test and will test what your website looks like in the dark, or when the s...
New Google+ test, and social badges 1 Mar 2013 | 07:37 pm
We’ve added a new test to Nibbler today that checks for Google+ pages associated with your website. Whilst it’s not everyone’s social website of choice, Google+ is now the second most popular social n...
The stupid cookie law is dead at last 31 Jan 2013 | 02:44 pm
The organisation responsible for policing the UK cookie law has just announced that they will stop asking users for permission to set cookies on their own website. In other words: The Information Comm...
Nibbler changes – New leaderboards show top users by country 15 Jan 2013 | 07:44 pm
Our free website testing tool Nibbler now has separate leaderboards for each country. A few months ago we asked users which country they lived in when logging into Nibbler in preparation for this upda...
