Tools
Over the past few years, I have collected a series of very useful tools for webmasters. I will continue to update this list, whenever I find a new resource for my fellow webmasters to use. The list is broken down into categories and the categories are listed in no particular order (neither are the posts, for that matter). So, I hope that you can find some useful links here, and feel free to suggest some to me in the comments of any one of my blog posts! I look forward to seeing this list grow.
Evaluation Tools
Measure Map: Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world. It provides easy tools to keep major stats for your blog.
Google Analytics: Google Analytics shows you how people found your site, how they explored it, and how you can enhance their visitor experience.
Mint: Mint is an extensible web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint’s flexible dashboard.
Web Page Analyzer: This tool tests the speed and performance of your website. It gives you diagnostic info and then provides recommendations on how you can speed up your site. They also offer a book about optimizing your website.
Sitescore: Sitescore is a free tool for analysing websites. In short, they run a whole bunch of tests and come back to you with some scores, like how accessible or well built your website is.
Smart PageRank: This tool will check your site’s pagerank and its validity, and then even give you an estimate of how much your site might be worth.
WebWait: This is another web tool that gives you feedback about the speed of your website’s load time. It can test your webpage multiple times.
Small Business Hub: This tool grades your website like a teacher would at school. It is out of 100 and it critiques and gives you suggestions.
URL Trends: This site gives you some basic data about your site, but it also gives you an idea of how you are doing relative to others in search engine popularity.
CrazyEgg: This site gives you a clear idea of where all of your users are clicking and it can greatly help optimize your site. It provides a heat map and at the very least is just plain fun to look at.
Firestats: This is a web statistics system. The version I tried out was for Wordpress and it simply a plugin. It spews out all sorts of counter, browser and various other stats.
Feedburber Stats: FeedBurner Stats is a plugin which gives you FeedBurner Stats without redirecting your users to the FeedBurner feeds. So, you keep your subscribers on your site but still get the stats.
Truwex Website Accessibility Check: Truwex manages website compliance with web accessibility, online privacy, quality standards. Truwex is a web governance and testing solution in one product.
HTML/CSS
HTML Optimizer: Get rid of all those extra white spacing in your HTML websites using this tool. It is supposed to optimize your sites for faster load. Give the tool a try!
W3Schools XHTML Tutorial: XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML. In this tutorial you will learn the difference between HTML and XHTML. It will also show you how the W3School Web site was converted to XHTML.
XHTML/CSS Tutorial: Here is another XHTML tutorial, but it also includes a tutorial about CSS. Also, it is a bit more comprehensive.
Open Source Web Design: Open Source Web Design is a site to download free web design templates and share yours with others. They help make the internet a prettier place. The next entry on the list used to be a part of this site, but they had a little falling out…
Open Web Design: Open Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information.
Clean CSS: CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise.
Max Design: Can you take a simple list and use CSS to create radically different list options? These tutorials show you how you can do that and more with CSS.
