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  • Hacker News
  • I love it. It turns out my friends site is mogging mine. Can't let this stand, time to vibe. Thank you for prompting me to act.
    by fluffet
  • I love how Hacker News seems to loose out to basically everything, even example.com ("such intentional use of whitespace!")
    by xg15
  • I mean, yeah, that’s to be expected.

    The site is intentionally kept visually unappealing.

    by Iulioh
  • Interesting: "whitehouse.gov cannot be mogged because it resolves or redirects to a private/internal network address."
    by ale42
  • The first octet of the IP it resolves to is "192", maybe someone implemented the check for private/internal range wrong and is only looking for that.
    by benregenspan
  • There's so much tracking on this site it's even running WebGL to try and fingerprint the browser. Is that really necessary for a joke site, or does this ship by default with every CloudFlare site?
    by recsv-heredoc
  • Seems legit for Google vs Kagi: https://sitemogging.com/mogged/google.com-vs-kagi.com
    by RhysU
  • This is a fun tool. I compared https://www.tyleo.com to Hacker News and won (Hacker News got 2.7, not hard to beat).

    What I really wanted though was just a way to get my own site’s score without having a competitor.

    by tyleo
  • Haha, great project. I had no idea what mogging means, but my underdog site apparently mogged the segment leader: https://sitemogging.com/mogged/dles.aukspot.com-vs-dles.gg
    by trizoza
  • Shame about the screenshotting feature - it doesn't afford the ability for a more interactive site to really showcase itself.

    Good example: The site of the family office of the heir to the Nintendo empire only got a 4/10 https://www.y-n10.com/

    by mlacks
  • Not sure about this one - my slightly terrible portfolio website that i'm in the process of completely revamping (bemben.co.uk) managed to mog simon wilsons webblog (https://simonwillison.net/) - which is a far better website in all aspects!

    Maybe introduce some additional stats like load times, content analysis etc - and tweak the prompt slightly - just because a website looks slightly newer, doesn't mean it's better at all!

    by endymion-light
  • Fun that we both used simonw as the "competitor", and both of our more minimalistic websites won over him! :)

    So the obvious next step is to pit them against each other, seems your "premium, editorial feel" won out!

    > bemben.co.uk wins due to its sophisticated use of typography and a cohesive dark-mode aesthetic that creates a premium, editorial feel. While emsh.cat is functional and clean, it lacks the intentional visual hierarchy and character found in the layout of bemben.co.uk.

    by embedding-shape
  • I don't know what "site mogging" is, but apparently "emsh.cat mogged simonwillison.net" with the following description:

    > emsh.cat wins due to its superior use of negative space and a more intentional, minimalist typographic hierarchy that creates a sophisticated reading experience. While simonwilliam.net provides high information density, emsh.cat achieves a more polished and modern aesthetic through its refined layout and balanced composition.

    So "mogged" is about minimalism somehow? Fancy/modern term for "beauty" or similar?

    by embedding-shape
  • Mogging is gen z alphabro/incel speak for "dominating" another that gets used ironically. If I'm taller than you, I might say "get heightmogged". This is used to absurdity, where one is able to get mogged in any number of varieties, including having the nicer website "sitemogged?"

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mogging

    by jszymborski
  • I think it means which site is numberwang.
    by deepsquirrelnet
  • Ironically, Cloudflare won't let Cloudflare Cloudflare:

    https://sitemogging.com/mogged/asda.com-vs-tesco.com

    asda.com uses Cloudflare to block Cloudflare

    tesco.com uses Akamai to block Cloudflare

    by amiga386
  • Maybe im not in the target audience, but i had to look up what mogging is because its not explained anywhere
    by kryogen1c
  • What I gathered is that "mog" is from "amog" which means "alpha male of the group", which makes "mogging" being "out-alpha'd". Which isn't new, it goes back years if not decades to the "alpha male" trends through "pick-up artists" to modern-day incel/bro/manosphere/etc subcultures.

    I know the author from about ten years ago and I'm not surprised he's into it. But also he's Dutch so it's probably used very much ironically / as a joke here.

    by Cthulhu_
  • I only heard of it due to a memecoin, and people trying to promote the memecoin using the ‘point at you, laughing cat’ emoji combo.
    by nailer
  • Although I have the misfortune of knowing what it means, every time I see it some part of my brain assumes it's something to do with cats (via British slang).
    by rsynnott
  • The know your meme page on it is extensive. My distillation is:

    Mogging is behaving as though you expect everyone is going to think you're great because of how you look; in particular that you think you look better than someone right next to you.

    by rout39574
  • Classic mogging: https://www.youtube.com/@jacob_rees_mogg
    by throwaway902152
  • There's an interesting Behind the Bastards podcast about the rise of incel culture and its push into mainstream. It's called "From Elliot Rodger to Clavicular." They talk about the language of incels and how their vocabulary tends to end up in the mainstream at a surprising rate compared to other fringe cultures. "Mogging" is one of those terms that comes from incels.
    by imzadi
  • It's incel-speak for dominating someone.

    "IQ-mogged" would mean that person A was dominated/overshadowed/etc. by person B because person B is very smart.

    "Height-mogged" would mean the same, but due to height.

    by TrackerFF