More than once, when we are surfing, we can't know if a site is trustworthy until we discover it too late when that site has downloaded some malicious content that causes damage to our computer. However, luckily there are developers concerned about these situations, such as those who have produced WOT, a service that will let you know the security level of any website.

WOT is nothing more than an extension specially created for the browser Google Chrome, the most popular one nowadays, thanks to which you will have a series of indicators at your disposal to know how reliable any site on the Internet is. And quickly, without needing previous knowledge or having dealt with similar applications, you will see if you are exposing your PC. This service, Web of Trust, works with all the websites we can visit, from those that have to do with informative pages to those of social networks, e-mails, adult sites, or any other that interests you. No matter what place you plan to visit, you will know that this indicator will give you the information you need about whether it is potentially dangerous for your computer. WOT uses a color method to explain how safe a site is, so you will have to go by the following indicators that show the confidence that users who have visited a website have in it:

How it works

• Dark green: excellent
• Light green: good
• Yellow: not enough
• Orange: poor
• Red: dangerous
• Gray: the site has not yet been rated by users.

As you may have seen, trying your luck with other similar tools is unnecessary because it is enough to check the primary color that appears next to the address of the site in question to know if we may be getting into trouble. If you want to, you can click on these color indicators to get much more information about the page in question, avoiding doubts or knowing more details about it. We recommend that if you see the red indicator appear directly, flee from that site as soon as possible because that means that you are putting at risk all the content you share on it, in addition to the fact that essential information can be stolen. In any case, a good option that you should analyze is to visit those sites from an incognito tab like the one that Chrome and many other browsers have. And how does WOT know if a page can be dangerous for those who visit it? Well, it does so by considering the information and opinions that the users of its community have been offering after having seen all those sites. That is to say, here we are dealing with the experience that people like us have had, which is undoubtedly an advantage because if it has affected someone in the same situation, we could assume that this could also happen to us. Otherwise, something exciting about WOT is that it hardly consumes system resources, so if you have this extension running all the time, you won't notice that your PC slows down its performance or anything like that. As for WOT's user interface, we have to say that we liked it a lot, considering that although most of the time it is active in the background when we have to access its menus and configuration options, we find an extremely comfortable environment attractive to the eye.

The best

WOT has many exciting features, among which we should mention in the first instance that it is a secure tool, free, easy to install and that we will hardly notice that it is running because of its low resource consumption. To that, we must add its many customization options, perfect, for example, to filter sites about which we do not want to receive notifications of danger, etc.

The worst

Although we have not found too many weaknesses in our experience with WOT, we have to say that several sites do not indicate how safe they are, and as a result, their users have not yet given feedback about it. For this reason, it is vital that you can collaborate with its developers and also with other users, indicating which sites you consider safe.

Rating

In general terms, we can say that WOT is one of those Chrome extensions that we can recommend to all users who usually visit sites they do not know in their daily use of this browser so that they get a higher level of security. It never hurts to see when a website can be risky, and especially when that opinion comes from people in the same situation, it is doubly valuable.