Gordon's WebLog

Website Grader

Have you ever wondered just how your web site compares with others, its social popularity, its inward links, its readability level and other technical factors ? Well, wonder no more. Website Grader will give you an immense amount of information on many aspects of your site. It is very easy to use, and the results are available within a very short time in the form of a report which includes many useful hints and tips and an overall score out of 100.

When I used this tool on my Church web site it gave a score of 58 i.e. it "scores" better than 58% of other web sites in its effectiveness calculated over 50 variables. The report also states that the site is within the top 8.92% of sites. Further, there are over 33,000 subscribers to its RSS feed. Doing a report on this blog gives an even higher score of 62, and it is in the top 1.82% of blogs tracked by Technorati.

Give it a try. The report may enable you to get a higher ranking.

IE NetRenderer

Yes, we all know that Internet Explorer in its various versions can cause some web pages to display incorrectly. Here is a tool that will render any web page in various IE versions. It is very quick and give a good idea as to whether all is OK with the page. Give it a try. It could save hours of frustration.

YSlow

If you use the Firefox  browser then there is a delightful add-on called YSlow which will enables you to analyze many aspects of your site (performance, statistics and component summary), and it also gives an idea of what elements on a page are causing slow download times. NOTE. It must be used in connection with the Firebug add-on.

Site-Perf

Site-Perf is another useful tool which measures the time taken to load various compenents on a web page. This is particularly useful in relation to images, as these are notorious at slowing doen page loads, particularly if they are not optimized for the web.