The best website or blog evaluation!
January 10, 2012
Years ago I was looking for ways to evaluate my website.
I tried different websites to test for my website and blog, ASK Harriete, . . . and then learned the harsh reality - my website needs work. Welcome to managing a website yourself.
What distinguishes a website testing service? I no longer have any idea, but the issue is still important. Google is not as transparent as it used to be about search ranking. Security, spelling, images, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) are still important but cloaked in more secrecy to avoid people gaming the system like they did in the past.
What is important now? Updating your website. Avoiding stagnant content.
The free test offers information on multiple categories:
- broken links
- content keywords
- headings
- printability
- W3C compliance
- social interest
- stylesheets
- broken files
- incoming links
- spelling
- poplularity
- url format
- link states
- freshness
- search engine results
- readability
- analytics
- alternative text
- speed
- visual interest
- image usage
- links
- search ranking
Look for a website testing tool every so often. See what happens.
While I am a rank amateur in web design and SEO (Search Engine Optimization), this test raised my awareness of many SEO evaluation standards. I didn't know that links from social networks, spelling, titles, headers, or image ALT text (descriptions of your images) had such an important impact in evaluating my site. (Since this was a free test, many results were withheld.) Still, I have lots of information to work with in the next weeks.
TEST YOUR WEB SITE or Blog.
UPDATE 2013: This post was created in January 2012. Since then I have learned about free tools provided with Google Webmaster Tools (and changed again more recently.) Find all ASK Harriete posts on Search Engine Optimization for artists and craftspeople with this link.
In February 27, 2023 I tried https://website.grader.com/
I am always willing to try an experiment.
This post was updated on February 27, 2023