When developing and maintaining websites, analysis plays a significant
role in maximizing the effectiveness of the site. There are a
number of resources and tools for
analyzing web
pages, and this
post looks at 20 of the best
free tools
for this purpose. Almost all of them require no account or download to
be used.There are a variety of different tools represented here. Some
will
analyze one specific aspect
of a page and others will give an overall grade to the page as a whole.
Most of them will help you with your SEO efforts. Try a few of them that looking
interesting and
helpful.
Website Grader is one of my favorite tools on the list because of how
helpful and usable it is. Youll get a lengthy report broken into
various sections with an evaluation of the page and recommended changes.
While the grade is helpful to know where you stand, the
suggestions are more valuable because
they help you to identify areas for improvement, and many of them can be
pretty simple.
One of the more unique tools in this list, Trifecta will analyze a
page, a blog, or an entire domain based on
slightly different criteria. Trifecta will produce
numbers based on a variety of factors and it will give you an overall
score. Without a pro membership youre limited to one report per day.
When developing and maintaining websites, analysis plays a
significant role in maximizing the effectiveness of the site. There are
a
number of resources and tools
for analyzing web
pages, and
this post looks at 20 of the best
free
tools for this purpose. Almost all of them require no account or
download to be used.There are a variety of different tools represented
here. Some will
analyze one
specific aspect of a page and others will give an overall grade to the
page as a whole. Most of them will help you with your
SEO efforts. Try a few of them that looking
interesting and
helpful.
Website Grader is one of my favorite tools on the list because of how
helpful and usable it is. Youll get a lengthy report broken into
various sections with an evaluation of the page and recommended changes.
While the grade is helpful to know where you stand, the
suggestions are more valuable because
they help you to identify areas for improvement, and many of them can be
pretty simple.
One of the more unique tools in this list, Trifecta will analyze a
page, a blog, or an entire domain based on
slightly different criteria. Trifecta will produce
numbers based on a variety of factors and it will give you an overall
score. Without a pro membership youre limited to one report per day.
This tool will give you a good idea of how search friendly you site
is, and it will also give you a percentage rating. It bases the rating
on factors like meta tags, use of headers, images and alt tags, load
time, and links.
This free tool will give you plenty of information to work with. It
will test how long the page takes to load, how many objects are on the
page, the size of the objects and more. The most helpful part of the
report that is produced is the Analysis and Recommendations section
where it will list 11 aspects of the page and give you a rating.
Red items are warnings, yellow items
are cautions, and green items are good.
Get a lengthy and detailed report from this tool. It will analyze
things like your meta tags, keywords, and anchor text on the page. Its a
good resource for getting a nice overall look at the
SEO of your page.
This tool will help you to identify problems with heading structure,
links, use of keywords and content. Its not as detailed of a report as
some of the others, but the information thats provided is helpful and it
features a better presentation than most other tools.
Seed keywords offers a plain English SEO
review that analyzes
certain aspects of a page and makes recommendations. It provides a basic
explanation of why elements that are analyzed will impact the SEO of
the page.
his tool gives you a general overview of the page and a number of
specifics that have been analyzed. Like many of the other tools, it will
analyze your meta tags and make suggestions if it finds that any
improvements are needed. It also looks at the size of the page and the
load time, keywords in the anchor text of the page, keywords in alt
tags, and the keyword density.
The Spider Test tool will give you a quick, simple look at how your
page appears to
search engines.
It will show the page title, description, keywords, size of the page,
the text of the page, and more.
This Web Page Analyzer will allow you to specify a URL and a targeted
phrase for search engines, and it will give you some feedback on how
well the page is optimized for this phrase.
Link Appeal
from Webmaster Toolkit
Do you want to see if a certain page (on your site or on someone
elses) is valuable place from which to get a link? Enter the URL and it
will give a score based on a few factors like PageRank and number of
outbound links.
This tool from Pingdom will analyze a number of aspects of the page,
including load time, objects, CSS, RSS, redirects and more.
Enter a URL and a targeted keyword or search phrase and youll get a
basic report that will give you an indication of how well you are doing
in competing for that phrase.
This is a simple way to see how your pages compare to those of other
sites. You can enter up to ten URLs to test at one time, which makes it
easy to see how your pages stack up.
Help to detect and avoid duplicate content penalties from search
engines by comparing two pages to see how similar they are, from the
perspective of a search engine. If theyre too similar you can make
modifications to distinguish them and avoid having them seen as
duplicates.
Dead links can be extremely frustrating for visitors, but checking
for dead links can be a time-consuming task. Fortunately, this tool will
allow you to enter a URL and it will crawl through the site and look
for links that return 404 pages.
The Firebug add-on 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.
Another Firefox add-on, YSlow will analyze your page to make
suggestions for how you can speed up the page. YSlow is integrated with
Firebug.
Google
provides a number of helpful analytical reports within Webmaster Tools.
You can 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, and much more.
Web CEO is a full suite of premium tools for optimization and
analysis; however, there is also a free version available for download.
The free tools will help you to get started with optimizing your site
according to its recommendations. With the free version you can get
keyword suggestions for your site, optimize your pages, check your
rankings, and more.
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