Grade Your Website: Free Online Evaluation Tools

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• On February 14th, 2009 at 1:56 pm, stratosg wrote:
  

  you covered the thing from pretty much every aspect. one more i would add is value meters that give you the price that your site is worth. nice collection of sites though!

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• On February 14th, 2009 at 7:40 pm, Kim Woodbridge wrote:
  

  Great list of tools! And ugh – I know I’ve had errors in my code forever and I keep meaning to fix it. How come every time I visit your site, Shirley, things get added to my todo list? LOL

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• On February 15th, 2009 at 2:52 am, Ben Pei wrote:
  

  I have been tracking my blog stats with website grader. They are really quite detailed about your seo effort and also manages to provide an updated alexa ranking.

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• On February 15th, 2009 at 6:04 am, Velvet Blues wrote:
  

  @stratos: Thanks. And I just linked to the post that has a list of value calculators… I guess that covers every topic.

  @Kim: Glad I could help. lol. Yeh, back in 2005, I had a client who was crazy about web standards. And ever since, I have been pretty crazy about them too.

  @Ben: Yes, website grader is one of my favorites. That nice little score makes you feel good, and the helpful tips are indeed useful. And I like knowing the Alexa rank before it is updated. After all, it seems like Alexa only gets around to updating ranks once a month!
• On February 15th, 2009 at 6:05 am, Nihar wrote:
  

  Thanks shirley. You have covered lot of tools here. I know few of them but donno know few of them. WIll check it out.

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• On February 15th, 2009 at 7:40 am, Ben Pei wrote:
  

  Yeah Shirley, sometimes they update a few times in a week. Sometimes not even once a month. But website grader is constant about it so I love it. Yeah the score they show is always 9x.
• On February 15th, 2009 at 10:18 am, Kurt Avish wrote:
  

  Very nice list of tools. Thanks for sharing. Got some tests to do then

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• On February 15th, 2009 at 1:36 pm, Velvet Blues wrote:
  

  @Nihar: Thanks. And feel free to share any great tools you know of.

  @Ben: The only thing that is bad about the tool is that for websites that do have a lot of traffic and links, it may give you a false sense of security because it seems like you don’t have much to work on. But regardless of ‘score’, each website has many things that can be done to improve it.

  @Kurt: Have fun. You know, I’d like to find one massive tool which does all tests at once.
• On February 15th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, Raju wrote:
  

  How important is it to get the site validated from w3c? I really want to know.

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• On February 15th, 2009 at 3:02 pm, Velvet Blues wrote:
  

  @Raju: That is a very good question. I actually wrote an article on it. There are three main reasons for validating your code: accessibility, cross-browser compliance, and search engine optimization.
• On February 15th, 2009 at 3:16 pm, Raju wrote:
  

  Thanks for the quick reply, I understand the accessibility aspect of it but how SEO is affected? How bad is too bad? or even 1 error means lower SEO?

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• On February 15th, 2009 at 3:28 pm, Velvet Blues wrote:
  

  @Raju: Yes, perhaps I should have been more explicit. Here are some reasons:

  1. That tool points out things that hurt seo, ie. same color text and background. Google might penalize a site for this offense.
  2. Fewer errors ensure that search engines can more efficiently crawl it. (ie. If you incorrectly use tags, you might find that search engines may index it as content, not HTML.)
  3. Proper use of tags ensure proper ranking/indexing of content. (ie. lists, code, addresses, etc… There are HTML tags for just about everything.) It also makes certain content more visible. For example, standards mandate the use of an image’s alt tag. And as Google tells us, it uses this tag for determining what the image is about.

  Of course, there are many well-ranked websites that have horrible code!
• On February 15th, 2009 at 4:10 pm, Dennis Edell wrote:
  

  Excellent lineup Shirley, I didn’t know half existed!

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• On February 15th, 2009 at 6:58 pm, Velvet Blues wrote:
  

  @Dennis: Yeh, there are some great tools out there.
• On February 16th, 2009 at 6:49 am, Raju wrote:
  

  Your last line again confused me (“Of course, there are many well-ranked websites that have horrible code!”). Why i am asking so many times is, when I tried to validate my theme on W3C I got around 30 errors. most of them relates to using “&” instead of “&” etc. I don’t think these things will restrict the crawlings of Google bots.

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• On February 16th, 2009 at 7:26 am, Velvet Blues wrote:
  

  @Raju: Yes, I just validated your site. Those ‘errors’ are pretty common. And no, they won’t restrict the crawlings of Google.

  My last sentence meant that there are plenty of sites that have lots of errors, yet rank well and get a lot of traffic from Google. (Great example: Ebay.com, try running that through the validator.)
• On September 11th, 2009 at 12:32 am, Alaska Web Design wrote:
  

  Superb! these tools are very thorough. I just learned more about my site in the past 10 minutes than I’ve learned in a year.

  Thanks.
• On October 7th, 2009 at 7:41 am, zamir wrote:
  

  Thanks a million for these very important and useful tools that is very helpful especially for new bloggers like me.
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