crobb305 - 11:12 pm on Apr 14, 2011 (gmt 0)

@Billy That calculation could be really useful. Can you do that same calculation on all the sites in the list, display the result here, then we'll see if there's a common theme...

Can anyone recommend a tool that can compute whitespace? I have been looking all over for something to help me do this. Don't think we can make a public recommendation, but if you know of one, feel free to send me a message, and I will try to run some tests on these sites. Looks cumbersome to manually go through and calculate ratios by hand. I think excessive whitespace (in addition to inappropriate text/html ratios i.e., sloppy code) could be additional signals of quality (ESPECIALLY sloppy code).