I think it is much easier to just hop into your wallet and try to make a transaction to see what the actual gas fee is. You are checking the gas fee because you want to make a transaction. For that you need to go into your wallet anyway, so why not see the gas fee right then and there? And the gas fee frequently changes.
This is true that when you make your transaction, you must to open your device, access your wallet and make a transaction.
The point is, before you do this, you can use those websites to check network status, transaction fee and see that do you actually want to make a transaction at that moment. If transaction fee is too expensive, it's unnecessary to do later steps.
No offense but I don't see the need for going to some other website to see the fee.
Maybe it's just me but doing transactions and watching the fee from the wallet is much easier. I could be wrong and people could have different opinion about this. But that's how I like it.
You are missing a point. The more exposure your wallet has with Internet, the more risk so if you can reduce it, why don't do this?
Prevention is better than cure even you can not have an airgap computer for your wallets.
Well now that you have explained it, it makes more sense. I haven't thought about it like that and now I understand why it is so important not to expose your wallet too much to the internet. Prevention is indeed better than cure so I agree with you.
Then again, I don't think Binance chain and Matic as well as Solana will ever have high fees for transactions. If I own tokens in those block chains, I don't think it is necessary to watch the fees first.
How much higher could the fee be ? If I'm making it big transaction, those small fee own matter that much.