If you're having trouble viewing a Web page — if it seems to take forever to load, or freezes up and won't display, for example — you might be able to improve the page's performance with a little help from Skweezer.
Skweezer is a free service from Greenlight Wireless that makes Web pages display better on mobile devices. But it can also make some pages display more efficiently on your Internet receiver.
Skweezer compresses and reformats Web pages so they load faster and are easier to navigate. This can come in handy on complex, text-and-graphics-filled pages like online news services or auction sites. Skweezer's navigation efficiency comes at the expense of aesthetics, as pages are generally whittled down to the bare minimum: long, scrolling lists of text and links. However, you have the option to display graphics, which slows performance a bit but makes pages more visually appealing.
Let's give Skweezer a try.
Go to
www.skweezer.net
Type a Web address in Skweezer's Search box. For this experiment, type
www.wideworldofwomen.net.
Choose Search.. A minimalist version of the Wide World of Women site appears.
IMPORTANT: Because Skweezer provides a "gateway" that reformats and displays sites, online security is not airtight. Therefore, you should NOT use Skweezer for sites that involve financial transactions. If you plan to enter any financial or personal information at a site (for example, a credit card number or a bank account number), use the original version of the site, rather than the site displayed by Skweezer.
Skweezer is built for speed, so the pages it displays aren't always pretty. If you like, you can experiment by turning the graphics display on and off. If you don't want to see graphics, choose Hide Images from the bottom of the page. If you do want to see graphics, scroll to the bottom of the page and choose Show Images.
If you don't mind sacrificing looks for speed, Skweezer can be a handy tool for viewing slow-to-load Web sites. Just remember that you shouldn't use Skweezer to go to sites where you'll enter financial or personal information.
I tested it out and depending on the thread it improved 25-75% faster.