Why and how you must check your website with free site analysis tools?
Before you hurry off to submit your web site to all the search engines and directories, you must always remember to check whether your web site is optimized. By analyzing your website you can ensure that it loads fast and does not have any dead links or spelling mistakes, which otherwise could result in a loss of tons of visitors to your website. For this purpose, there are a number of free web site analysis tools available on the net that will
- Check your site for
- Spelling mistakes – any spelling mistake in the website gives it an unprofessional character due to which visitors may hesitate to visit your website in future.
- Dead links – This occurs when a wrong link is given or a page that is linked to other pages in your website is deleted causing the following error to appear on your screen: 'The requested URL does not exist', when the link is clicked on.
- Loading time- It can be very frustrating to wait for a page that takes more than 30 seconds to load, resulting in a loss of visitors to your website.
- Browser compatibility
- Html design
- Rate your web site on a scale of poor to excellent.
Checking your site with these online tools will take only a minute of your time and will give you a lot of valuable information about your website.
Web site Analysis and Optimization Tools
Among the many web site improvement tools available, we have listed only the best ones that also happen to be FREE! We have used these tools on entheosweb.com and have changed the site according to their suggestions, in order to get a good rating. The results for the load time of the websites may differ for the different tools but you can take an average of these results to get a better idea of your web site load time.
Some of our Favorite Tools
- Netmechanic http://netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm
This is our absolute favorite. We strongly recommend that you use this tool for checking your load time, spelling mistakes, and browser compatibility. Some of the noted features are
- The report generated is concise and easy to understand.
- You can also use the HTML design report along with the Hit Box HTML report.
- Website Garagehttp://websitegarage.netscape.com/
- This tool offers two extra checks i.e. Link Popularity and Register-It!
- The load time results may not be accurate as it does not recognize Flash and other plug-ins.
- Hitboxhttp://www.hitbox.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?tools/doc
- If you would like to be cheered up with your web site load time go to Hitbox to get a good report on your load time. However, there is a big difference in these results when compared with that of the other tools.
- We recommend that you use the HTML design report of Hitbox along with the Netmechanic HTML report to get a good idea of how to improve the HTML design in your site.
We recommend you use Bobby if you want a strict evaluation of your web site. If you pass his stringent criteria you can get a Bobby Approved stamp.
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