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33 Free Tools to Make Your Website Better
1. Site-Perf – get an accurate, realistic, and helpful estimation of your site’s loading speed. The script fully emulates natural browser behavior downloading your page with all the images, CSS, JS and other files – just like a regular user. A unique feature is that site-perf.com allows to measure packet loss ratio with reasonable precision.
2. Customer Focus Calculator – will analyze the words on your page and determine if your copy is more about yourself or your customer. This tool will measure if you are we-we-ing all over yourself.
3. BT Buckets – Engage your users with a free segmentation and behavioral targeting tool.
4. 4Q from IPerceptions – developed with web analytics evangelist Avinash Kaushik. When evaluating how you website is doing obviously it helps to get your customers’ opinions. This free tool helps you answer four important questions:
* How satisfied are my visitors?
* What are my visitors at my website to do?
* Are they completing what they set out to do?
* If not, why not?
* If yes, what did they like best about the online experience?
5. What’s the Buzz? – a keyword research tool with one simple aim: to find out who’s talking about a certain keyword. To do that, it does five things:
* It displays the Technorati Blog Popularity Chart, showing how popular the keyword has been blogged about in the past 90 days
* It displays the Google Trends chart for the keyword
* It finds blog posts tagged with the keyword
* It finds blog posts containing the keyword (a straight-forward search)
* It finds social bookmarks tagged with the keywords
6. Bad Neighborhood Link Checker – scan the links on your website, and on the pages that your website is linking to, and flag possible problem areas.
7. Backlink Social Celebrity SEO Tool – discover who bookmarked a webpage and who linked to that webpage. The bookmarks are searched for in the various social bookmarking services, such as del.icio.us, Raw Sugar, and others. The backlinks are found using Google and Yahoo!.
8. Webbed-O-Meter 2.0 – can help track how effective you are at inspiring consumer generated content online, call it buzz marketing, social media marketing or viral marketing.
9. Website Grader – 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.
10. Spider Simulator – help you find out for yourself how a search engine reacts to your pages and what can be done to boost your visibility.
11. Spider Test – Shows the source code of a page, all outbound links, and common words and phrases.
12. Google Analytics – web analytics with new “enterprise features” and a ton of plugins and hacks.
13. Google Website Optimizer – Free A/B and Multivariate Testing
14. Yahoo! Analytics – still in beta, but incredibly powerful. It is currently available with Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Standard, Professional, and Yahoo! Store plans.
15. Microsoft adCenter Analytics – by invitation only, but you can apply at the link provided.
16. Piwik – This is an open source web analytics solution.
17. Linkscape – allows access to link information on more than 30+ billion web pages across 200+ million domains.
18. BacklinkAnalysis – Get a look at what keywords websites are linking to you with.
19. Trifecta – Measures metrics to estimate the relative popularity and importance of Page, Blog or Domain.
20. Firebug – this plugin for Firefox provides a number of development tools. For the purposes of analysis, Firebug will allow you to monitor and debug HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from within your browser.
21. YSlow for Firebug – YSlow will analyze your page to make suggestions for how you can speed up the page. YSlow is integrated with Firebug.
22. Google Webmaster Tools – see which phrases your ranking well for, what pages are causing problems for Google when crawling your site, which pages are getting the most links, rss subscribers, etc.
23. Morgue File – offers free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
24. OpenAds – for sites that want to serve and track advertising.
25. Sitescore – analyzes the quality of incoming and outgoing links, keyword density, page titles, plagiarism, popularity rank, the usage of popups and the effectiveness of site’s structure. Sitescore also grades the printability, readability, spiderability and usability of the page as well as spelling and W3C compliance. This is no longer available for free, sorry.
26. mon.itor.us – use this to monitor uptime, website performance and other hosting abnormalities.
27. Orangoo Spell Check – spell check your website.
28. The Scrutinizer – offers 283 tools to test your website in one place.
29. Product Indexation Check – use this handy tool to check how many of your category or product pages are included in the major search engines.
30. Kamplye – allows your visitors to give feedback on your site, via a little button that sits at the edge of each webpage.
31. Google’s Free Custom Search Engine – create your own custom search engine, indexing your website or add additonal websites as well.
32. Feng-GUI – generates heatmaps for your website (upload a screenshot) by simulating human vision during the first five seconds of viewing your website.
33. Scrutinizer browser – a web browser, based upon the Adobe AIR toolkit and the WebKit browser, that offers a simulation of the human visual system. Using this simulation, you can get a better idea of how users interact with your site design.
What are some of your favorite free tools to make websites better?
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About the author
Bryan is the co-founder of FutureNow. He is the co-author of Call to Action, Waiting For Your Cat to Bark and Always Be Testing. You can friend him on Facebook or follow him on Twitter (@TheGrok).
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November 13th, 2008
12:14 pm
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November 13th, 2008
1:06 pm
Looks like a good list of tools. Some I knew about, other are new.
Thanks.
November 13th, 2008
1:48 pm
Excellent list of tools! All of them are huge value-drivers. Thanks so much for naming 4Q on this list.
November 13th, 2008
3:38 pm
Wow…I just found out what I am going to be doing tonight. Probably will install at least 3-4 of these tools. Excellent list. Thanks for the information!
November 13th, 2008
4:32 pm
This is a great list. It is going to take a while to go through all of these if each one requires unique installation code snippets.
November 13th, 2008
6:38 pm
Thank you for this awesome list! For those looking for a quick analysis of their website, I recommend http://www.websitegrader.com. HubSpot created this cool tool to “grade” your website. All you have to do is put in your url and your email (don’t worry they won’t SPAM you) and it is totally free.
November 13th, 2008
11:27 pm
Good tools. Not sure how well they all work from trying them, but fun. Members only ones,aren’t woth posting on free tools
November 14th, 2008
2:34 am
I’ve noticed sitescore.org doesn’t work on my side… maybe it’s a dns issue?
November 14th, 2008
4:02 am
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7:12 am
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November 14th, 2008
9:53 am
I saw many sites with Kamplye and I didn’t like it. Google Analytics is really useful tool. Scrutinizer very nice collection of tools.
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4:17 pm
Nice list. Thanks!
November 14th, 2008
4:28 pm
Hi, thanks for including our tool on your list!
You can integrate BTBuckets with Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager and much more! Check it out!
November 14th, 2008
7:47 pm
This really is a great list Brian. For those you who want to learn tips and tricks for these free tools to help improve their website (and stop wasting money on online marketing), feel free to read my new ebook all about this…
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November 14th, 2008
10:27 pm
Hello and great post with a huge offering of tools and there are some here that are a must have to get your web-site up to par.great post and kep up the good work.
thanks,
keith w.
November 15th, 2008
1:52 am
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November 15th, 2008
11:03 am
What a great set of tools! Many I haven’t heard of before. Thanks!
November 15th, 2008
11:05 pm
No doubt this is an awesome list and that too for zero cost. I have it bookmarked. This is a must have list for any web developers.
November 15th, 2008
11:12 pm
Thanks. This is excellent list of free tools. All of them are of huge value for any web development team.
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1:55 am
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November 16th, 2008
6:56 am
Great list, thanks.
November 16th, 2008
8:24 am
Seriously great roundup of tools. I’ve bookmarked the majority of them as I knew of only a few beforehand. Keep up the fantastic posts.
November 16th, 2008
10:34 am
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11:26 am
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2:03 pm
Yum! Posts with lists of tools are always great and this one is superior!
SiteScore is actually at http://www.silktide.com/sitescore/
November 16th, 2008
4:27 pm
I don’t see any free options with SiteScore. Maybe I missed them…
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3:51 am
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4:11 am
I’m missing some webanalytics / heatmap tools:
GetClicky
ClickTale
ClickDensity
Woopra (!)
November 17th, 2008
12:10 pm
Crazy post! I’ll try a few of these… So little time!
November 17th, 2008
1:00 pm
Great list of tools. On any list like this they’ll always be several I’ve tried but still new ones that have not been utilized yet.
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1:34 am
A couple of tools on this list are no longer free and should be removed, the SEOmoz tool and the Silktide tool to begin with.
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November 19th, 2008
6:11 pm
The actual trick is finding a client with the budget to actually pay to have all or even half of these tools utilized, or a normal actual business owner with the time and technical understanding to figure out on their own. We will definitely look through these. Thanks there are several we have not found before. If anyone runs across a potential lead or client that has a budget for this work let us know, we pay for contracted client leads if they go through with our company. Thanks, Will
November 20th, 2008
6:31 am
Great list of tools, thanks a lot.
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November 20th, 2008
7:00 pm
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7:44 am
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November 26th, 2008
6:25 am
excellent list…I discovered some new tools I was not aware of…good job.
November 26th, 2008
11:55 pm
I have seen a couple of these before but this is quite the list. I’ve bookmarked and stumbled it.
November 30th, 2008
10:57 am
Great list, but I think some tools are pretty much for same purpose.
Maybe you could have cut down list for like 15-20 tools must to have?
Feng-GUI sounds interesting, I’m trying it now.
December 8th, 2008
10:50 pm
Thanks for your guide
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December 11th, 2008
2:02 pm
Best list of tools I have yet to see. Developing site scratch, this narrative approach is already saving us from mistakes and unfocused activities….and time is too valuable to waste.
December 14th, 2008
4:05 am
This is a great list!Thank you ever so much!
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December 20th, 2008
8:48 am
what’s the buzz is an interest tool. fun to play with if nothing else
December 20th, 2008
9:49 pm
Great resource! Thank you!
December 22nd, 2008
10:28 pm
One of the best if not the best list I have seen. This is very helpful for any webmaster, thanks for sharing.
December 23rd, 2008
10:33 am
I appreciate the information. I am just starting out on my own as a blogger. Cheers Tim
December 23rd, 2008
11:38 am
Great reference article! Bookmarked it and gonna check out all the tools when I have some more time. Thanks, Lenen
December 25th, 2008
11:49 am
Very useful list. Thanks so much.
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2:39 pm
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December 31st, 2008
6:28 am
Great list of free tools. I didn’t knew some of them so good job Bryan
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January 16th, 2009
6:58 am
Really great and helpful list.
thanks for sharing
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January 30th, 2009
11:36 am
Thank you so much for posting this information, great!
February 9th, 2009
9:04 am
I come back and after one week want to say you all, this list rock’s. I’ve been working with it and i improved all my websites big time. Great post.
February 15th, 2009
11:09 am
Just what I was looking for! I’m bookmarking this page for future posts.
Thanks,
-MBM Construction
March 8th, 2009
3:29 am
Whoa, gonna take me a while to sort through the great resources on this list! Always looking to expand my seo tools bookmark collection!
March 12th, 2009
5:18 am
AFter reading the article, I come to the conclusion that I don’t know much about SEO. e.g. I have never heard of number 19: [Trifecta - Measures metrics to estimate the relative popularity and importance of Page, Blog or Domain.] SO, I will look into it immediately! Regards, Tiffany
March 26th, 2009
7:57 am
Great reference article! Bookmarked it and gonna check out all the tools when I have some more time. Thanks, BKR
April 7th, 2009
7:59 pm
Another one you should add to your list: http://www.loop11.com.
April 9th, 2009
3:00 am
Nice list, thanks for sharing.I like Google Webmaster Tools
April 29th, 2009
10:46 pm
Thanks for the tips. Lots of new stuff I had never heard of before.
May 2nd, 2009
6:30 am
Thanks for the excellent source of website tools. There are some that I already use while others I’ve never heard of.
Tom
May 12th, 2009
5:41 am
Use kuler from adobe to generate colors for your website.
May 18th, 2009
7:39 am
Thanks for the list – awesome stuff
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7:22 am
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June 1st, 2009
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June 2nd, 2009
12:34 am
Great list, it is helpful for my website
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June 2nd, 2009
4:41 am
Great article, some real life savers in there. I’ve been looking for a website spell checker for ages – there’s nothing worse than a typo!
June 2nd, 2009
7:23 pm
Great tools. Bookmarking this and going to share with my readers. Thanks!
June 5th, 2009
5:13 am
Thx for sharing the list of tools.
June 18th, 2009
7:45 am
Great resource. thanx
June 18th, 2009
7:45 am
Yeah used this before
June 18th, 2009
7:46 am
Thanks man!
June 21st, 2009
7:08 am
Really great set of tools
June 22nd, 2009
10:02 pm
Tools are nice, They’re helpful for my website.