'Check' site should have the YES/NO answer in the title + 2 other improvement suggestions
Currently title always has the question "Are you using Tor?"
It is very cheap and easy to make it much more informative by putting and answer there:
- YES, You are using Tor or
- NO, You are not using Tor
This will be great for people who are on slow connections and have to wait for many seconds for an answer, so they can switch to another page and still see the answer.
Additionally, for people with JavaScript enabled, you can also easily switch favicon to red one when the answer is NO, as a safety feature to catch attention more easily:
(function() {
var link = document.createElement('link');
link.type = 'image/x-icon';
link.rel = 'shortcut icon';
link.href = 'http://check.torproject.com/favicon-red.ico';
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(link);
}());Additionally, again for people with JavaScript enabled, you can add the ability to automatically recheck every minute for an hour. When JavaScript is enabled, you don't need to reload the whole page, instead you can just fetch the boolean answer to save bandwidth, and then switch the page dynamically. So it will probably consume only 2 times the bandwidth, not 60 times, when it will update 60 times.