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===Web design and robots=== Since Lynx will take keystrokes from a text file, it is still very useful for automated data entry, web page navigation, and [[web scraping]]. Consequently, Lynx is used in some web crawlers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blog::Quibb Β» Crawling the Web With Lynx |url=https://blog.quibb.org/2010/11/crawling-the-web-with-lynx/ |access-date=2024-07-19 |language=en}}</ref> Web designers may use Lynx to determine the way in which search engines and web crawlers see the sites that they develop.{{sfn|King|2008|pp=44-46}}{{sfn|Bartlett|2006}}{{sfn|Rognerud|2010|p=187}} Online services that provide Lynx's view of a given web page are available.{{sfn|Paciello|2000|p=135}} Lynx is also used to test websites' performance. As one can run the browser from different locations over remote access technologies like [[Telnet]] and [[Secure Shell|SSH]], one can use Lynx to test the website's connection performance from different geographical locations simultaneously.{{sfn|Killelea|2002|pp=60-61}} Another possible web design application of the browser is quick checking of the site's links.{{sfn|Killelea|2002|p=178}}
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