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69 Tools to Monitor, Measure, and Track Your Website

PAGE ANALYSIS:

  1. SEOmoz Page Strength Tool - A useful tool that gives an overall look at the strength of a page.
  2. Sitening’s SEO Analyzer - See if your pages are structured to achieve high search engine rankings.
  3. Self SEO’s Page Speed Checker - Test the load time of your pages and your competitor’s pages.
  4. GoogleRankings.com - Check the use of keywords and phrases on your site.
  5. Popuri - See several items such as PageRank and inbound links all at once.
  6. Keyword Density Analysis - See how frequently you are using certain words and phrases.
  7. Meta Tag Analyzer - How are search engine spiders seeing your meta tags?
  8. Code to Text Ratio - Check for code bloat.
  9. Strongest Subpages Tool - Finds the 30 strongest subpages on your domain.
  10. Similar Page Checker - Avoid duplicate content.
  11. SEO Analysis Tool - Measures the ranking potential of a page.
  12. WebSitePulse - A few different tools to test your sites performance.
  13. Website Grader - Get a score for your site and even compare it to competitors if you want.
  14. Watchfire WebXACT - Test for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.

STATS:

  1. Google Analytics - The leading free stats program.
  2. AWStats
  3. StatCounter
  4. AddFreeStats
  5. OneStat
  6. Smart Tracking
  7. Alexa - See where your site ranks.

BLOG STATS:

  1. FeedBurner - Stats on your feed and your subscribers.
  2. pMetrics - from Performancing.
  3. pMetrics Plugin- Extending pMetrics.
  4. IceRocket - Free stats program for blogs.
  5. Technorati - See who’s linking to you.

STATS PLUS:

  1. Crazy Egg - Provides visual data about your visitors.
  2. Mint - An extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program.

WEBMASTER TOOLS:

  1. Google Webmaster Tools - Lots of information that shows you how Google sees your site.
  2. Web CEO - A collection of a number of useful tools. Free and paid editions.

CHECK AND TRACK SEARCH ENGINE RANKINGS:

  1. Sitening’s SERP Tracker - Test your page’s optimization.
  2. Search Engine Rankings Checker - From Mike’s Marketing Tools.
  3. Google Banned Checker - Has the largest search engine in the world banned your website? Find out here.
  4. Number of Pages Indexed - How many pages do you have indexed by search engines?
  5. Website SEO Checkup - Make sure you’re ready to get high search engine rankings.
  6. GeoTargeting Detection Tool from SEOmoz - Determine how well your site is targeted to country specific search engines.

GOOGLE PAGERANK:

  1. PageRank Prediction - You need a minimum of 100 backlinks.
  2. Smart PageRank - Check your PR.

REPUTATION AND BUZZ MONITORING:

  1. Google Alerts - Have preset alerts sent to you by email.
  2. co.mments - Monitor comments on blogs.
  3. Conversation Tracker from BlogPulse
  4. Trend Search from BlogPulse
  5. Keotag - See if blogs are using your company name in the tags of their blog posts.
  6. BoardTracker - Watch for mentions of your company in forums.

LINKS:

  1. Dead Links tool from W3C - Find broken links.
  2. Link Popularity Checker - From Mike’s Marketing Tools.
  3. Xenu’s Link Sleuth - Find broken links.
  4. Backlinks and Anchor Text - See who’s linking to you and what anchor text they are using.
  5. Reciprocal Links Checker - Do you have agreements with others for reciprocal links? Check them here.

SPIDER SIMULATOR:

  1. Summit Media’s Spider Simulator
  2. Spider View
  3. Webconfs.com Spider Simulator

CSS ANALYSIS TOOLS:

  1. Clean CSS - Formatting and Optimizing
  2. CSS Tidy - Optimizer and parser.
  3. CSS Redunancy Checker - Redundancy is easy to do with CSS. Fix it with this.
  4. CSS Analyzer - A validator plus.

VALIDATORS:

  1. HTML - Validator from W3C.
  2. CSS - Validator from W3C.
  3. RSS - Validator from W3C.

WEBSITE PERFORMANCE:

  1. AlertSite Website Performance Monitor
  2. KeyNote
  3. WebWatch Bot
  4. IPCheckPoint

GOOGLE ADSENSE:

  1. Free Charts and Graphs
  2. AdSense Notifier - Shows your AdSense stats in the status bar.

BROWSER COMPATIBILITY:

  1. BrowserShots - See screenshots of your page in a number of different browsers.
  2. Ready.mobi - Test your site for use with mobile browsers.

OTHER:

  1. Geotargeting - find the location of your host’s servers
  2. Find Your Site’s IP Address

Originally Published October 15th, 2007

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