VirusTotal has released a new ASCII-style website to the public. The new page went public last week and is designed for legacy visitors programs tours, who want a minimalist experience or who want to remember what it was like to connect to a BBS or a terminal in the early days of the Internet.
Due to the minimal size of the page, the new UI is ideal for mobile browsers that usually use slow connections.
The new VirusTotal website is located at https://www.virustotal.com/old-browsers/ and renders only with text, without any pictures.
It also uses little JavaScript to reduce size and improve loading times.
This optimization based on speed tests at Pingdom makes the page respond immediately. The regular page located at https://www.virustotal.com/ has a page size of 947,9 KB, loading time 425 ms and contains 35 requests. The new environment only has a page size of 6.1 KB, loading time 266 ms and 6 requests.
The new page works as well as the regular page. You can still submit files and URLs and you will be shown to scan results.
The new UI although looks great in modern browsers, still needs a lot of work to get a nice look on applications such as Lynx.
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