ViewState Snail

Helps ASP.NET developers improve performance via increased awareness of View State footprint.

What is ViewState Snail?

"ViewState Snail" is a Chrome extension specially made for ASP.NET developers. The tool provides an easy-to-notice percentage display indicating the view state usage of a webpage. It is ideal for teams as it encourages shared responsibility in performance optimization. The extension allows for customization of amber and red thresholds for maximum view state length. Other features include HTML and ViewState length count. Supports view state chunking. The tool has been updated to Manifest V3.

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By: Mike W

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Users: 779 ▲ 18

Rating: 4.60 (10)

Version: 2.0 (Last updated: 2022-10-06)

Creation date: 2017-03-09

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

tabs
storage

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 57.80K

Email: vi*****@mike-whitehurst.co.uk

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 32497 ▲ 88

Other rankings

#6063 in Developer Tools ▲ 7 #89 in state keyword 15 ▲ 10

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Summary

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PURPOSE

The idea is that you're a developer who wants to easily spot when a web page is using too much view state
You want the information easily noticeable, rather than relying on you to click something to check view state.
You want something your whole team can use, so you can share the responsibility.

Basic Functionality

Counts HTML Length
Counts VIEWSTATE Length
Calculates a PERCENTAGE

PERCENTAGE displayed on the extension button
Red-Amber-Green color based on thresholds you can configure

OPTIONS

User reviews

Spot on for what i need

Colin Sanders, 2019-09-04

Simply reads the size of the first __Viewstate hidden form field. If you are using viewstate chunking this is worthless.

Aaron Gibbs, 2016-10-28

Je weet meteen hoeveel procent van je pagina uit ViewState bestaat. Snel en simpel!

Marc de Vries, 2015-10-19

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Safety

Risk impact

ViewState Snail is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install ViewState Snail if you trust the publisher.