Understanding how users find, see, and interact with your website is a great way to improve your content, design, and navigation. Understanding your site will help you craft a better user experience.
There are several tools on the web that can expose telling data about your site. Below are 5 tools which will help you analyze your site.
Website Grader
http://www.websitegrader.com
Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.
SEO Analyzer
http://raven-seo-tools.com/seo-analyzer/
This tool will show you the structure of your pages and help you achieve higher search engine rankings.
Summit Media’s Spider Simulator
http://tools.summitmedia.co.uk/spider/
This service provides you with a report on aspects of the page that are used to determine how highly in a search engine the page is ranked, and also gives some general usability feedback.
PageRank Checker For Your Backlinks
http://www.smartpagerank.com/pagerank-backlinks.php
This tool will output sites linking in and will list each of the links PageRank. You can also list out the links that have a nofollow attribute.
Crazy Egg
http://crazyegg.com
Create tests to figure out what people are doing on your website. This service presents the results using three different methods: Overlays, Lists and Heatmaps. The free version allows your to test 4 pages simultaneously and up to 5,000 visits per month.
Browser Shots
http://browsershots.org
Browsershots is a free service that makes screenshots of your web design in several different browsers.
W3C Markup Validation
http://validator.w3.org
Validating your documents is an important step which can dramatically help improve and ensure your documents quality.
Google Analytics
http://www.google.com/analytics/
Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features from keyword and campaign comparison to funnel visualization. This service is free and easy to implement.
Mint
http://haveamint.com
Mint is a self-hosted web site analytics program that offers information on your users, referrals, geo-mapping and much more.
DNS Scoop
http://www.dnscoop.com
Although DNS Scoop’s main intent is to value a domain, it provides some good info on Pagerank, traffic, and links pointing to your domain.
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30 Comments
On Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 6:59:am
usefull tools… thanks
On Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 10:52:am
Thanks for this list! Appreciate you!
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On Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 1:48:pm
I just discovered your blog and this article. Awesome. The resources here will help me shore up my website from an seo/marketing standpoint.
On Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 9:05:am
Good little list you have here.
On Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 9:18:am
thanks, great for article
On Monday, September 29, 2008 at 10:04:am
Wow, thats a great list of very useful tools listed. Thanks. Added to favorites.
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On Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 10:56:am
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On Monday, March 30, 2009 at 1:44:pm
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On Friday, June 26, 2009 at 4:52:am
Mvery useful and very helpful… thanks a ton!!!
On Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 9:14:am
You can also try www.estimix.com – a free tool that provides a nice summary of the website performance.The estimation provided by estimix is the result of a complex analysis based on factors like: the age of the website, the demographic structure of the traffic, the countries where the website is popular and sources of the traffic.
On Monday, October 19, 2009 at 3:52:pm
hey doug…love the article, very very useful..I’ve been awake for the past 4 days (96 hours) just trying to found tools that can actually analyze right away. Thank you so much doug….
On Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 2:21:am
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On Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 2:00:pm
Thanks so much for the free website analysis tools. I will have to check some of these out when i have more time to work on my personal website. thanks again!
On Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:31:pm
Wow, thanks a lot for these links, very useful tools indeed. Cheers!
On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 1:49:pm
Well I Found two links really useful. two links dead, or my hosts file blocked em.
1 was crazy egg. the other,,,, who cares lol.
But that was a pretty good lil write up there man. great job.
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 7:46:am
This was very useful site for me to check my website. It has loads of useful links that can be used for free. I THANK the submitter for giving us such useful tips.
On Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 2:02:am
I could find great options to analyze my website, Tools which i didn’t know some of them before, even after more than 3 years of experience in this field. Thanks…
On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 3:24:am
Thanks, this is just what I needed. I never knew that my blog loads so slow on other connections…. great article
On Friday, October 28, 2011 at 7:11:am
I found tools are useful , except that the price of my site was very low , I will try to make it better , so thank you dude
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On Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 5:53:pm
Excellent.thanks
On Monday, March 19, 2012 at 4:43:am
thanks for these brilliant information. i even never heard of some websites here.
On Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 7:46:am
Try http://www.websitepepper.com for a nice clear free SEO overview. If you register (also free) you can keep track of your ranking history.
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