Analyse this...
Posted on January 03, 2006
A new year: time to weed out those accumulated accessibility/validation problems!
Run your website through the following online tests, and spend fun-filled hours correcting your markup for the simple pleasure giving them nothing to nag about.
Multiple check-up
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Silktide Sitescore
A free tool which rates how well designed, popular and accessible your website is. You get a score from 0-10. I got 8.0 - the apple search box markup doesn't validate. (Thanks to Mattiz für the Link) -
Doctor HTML
Single page analysis is free. Covers a range of topics including link-checking, html validity, spelling, browser support. -
Page Valet
Checks accessibility, validity and links. -
HiSoftware Site Tester
Checks accessibility, alt texts, privacy issues, SEO (meta tags)
Validators
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W3C Validator
The Granddaddy of validators. Get yourself a free gif to pin onto your website. -
W3C CSS Validator
The CSS version... -
WDG Website Validator
Can validate your entire site, as opposed to one page at a time. Essential.
Accessibility
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Cynthia Says
Identifies errors related to Section 508 standards and/or the WCAG guidelines. One page at a time. -
Delorie Lynxview
An online lynx text browser emulator. - Also read: W3C Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
Download performance
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Webpage Analyizer
Website speed report including number of objects, est. download times and recommendations. -
Gomez Performance Test
Nice graphical depiction of download times for objects on a page. (The Technorati .js include is sloooowwww!)
Dead link checkers
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dead-links.com
A multi-page dead-link checker. Takes a while.
Search Engine Optimisation
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Poodle Predictor
How search engines view your site.
Anymore?
Comments (1)
Ben Bishop said
Now thats a handy collection of links, there's really no excuse for me not having valid markup in everything I do! (Should help with my New Year's resolutions)
Posted by: Ben Bishop at January 3, 2006 10:22 PM .
