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Web 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
Entheos.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
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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.
http://netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm
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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.
http://websitegarage.netscape.com/
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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.
http://www.hitbox.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?tools/doc
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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.
http://www.cast.org/bobby/
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