Site Optimization

 

Check your site with these free site analysis tools

Before you hurry off to submit your web site to all the search engines and directories, remember to check your web site thoroughly to see if your web site is optimized. There are a number of free web site analysis tools available on the net that will check your site for spelling mistakes, dead links, browser compatibility, html design and loading time. They will also 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 will give you a lot of valuable information about your site.

 

You know how frustrating it is to wait for a page to load. Most of the time you won’t bother to wait for more than 30 seconds or so, and if a page has still not loaded you might think ‘To hell with it – I’m going somewhere else’. Another often frustrating problem is to click on a link only to find the following error on your screen: ‘The requested URL does not exist’. This is known as a dead link. It could happen by giving a wrong link or by deleting a page that is linked to other pages in your site. And when you see a spelling mistake, your response is probably ‘If they haven’t checked their own web site for spelling mistakes, are they professional enough for me!’

Make sure your web site loads fast and it doesn’t have any dead links or spelling mistakes. You could lose tons of visitors if you don’t optimize your web site.

Web site Analysis and Optimization Tools

Among the many web site improvement tools available, we have listed only the best ones – and the best part is, they also happen to be FREE! We have used these tools on SmartWebby.com and have changed the site according to their suggestions, to get a good rating. They seem to give different results for the load time 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
    This is our absolute favorite. We strongly recommend that you use this tool for checking your load time, spelling mistakes, and browser compatibility. The report generated is concise and easy to understand. You can also use the HTML design report along with the Hit Box HTML report.
    https://netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm
  • Website Garage
    This tool offers two extra checks i.e. Link Popularity and Register-It! Readiness. Your load time results may not be accurate as it does not recognize Flash and other plug-ins.
    https://websitegarage.netscape.com/
  • Hitbox
    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. You will find that there is a big difference in these results when compared to the other tools. We recommend that you use the HTML design report along with the Netmechanic HTML report to get a good idea of how to improve the HTML design in your site.
    https://www.hitbox.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?tools/doc
  • Bobby
    If you want a strict evaluation of your web site we recommend you use Bobby. If you pass his stringent criteria you can get a Bobby Approved stamp.
    https://www.cast.org/bobby/
By | 2006-07-02T22:12:35+00:00 July 2nd, 2006|Search Engine Information|