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Nice. Very useful.

Suggestion, try changing your URLs. instead of

http://www.slowcop.com/reports/4d6468ff34b95f3cbb000554

try http://www.slowcop.com/reports/www.slowcop.com

by doing this you will get a lot of link traffic.

One problem with following your suggestion is that you cannot refer to an older test again. By including the test id in the URL, I was able to email myself the link, make some changes to my site, then run it again and compare the new results side-by-side against the old results. If only referenced by the site URL, no such comparison would be possible.

Might I therefore suggest a hybrid.

Using http://www.slowcop.com/reports/www.slowcop.com

will run the test on www.slowcop.com at the time the link is clicked, but have a way to retrieve a permalink URL to that particular test which is like:

http://www.slowcop.com/reports/www.slowcop.com/4d6468ff34b95...

so you can reference old tests for comparison.

Thanks for the suggestion, this is a great idea. I couldn't decide on a link structure for reports, so I just decided to use ids. But more meaningful links would be a useful feature.

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