In the good old days, there were lots of places you could go for a mechanical pair of eyes to look over your site and tell you how fast it loads, if there are broken links, that kind of thing. Netmechanic’s services used to be free, or have free trials. Ah, the good old days…
Most, if not all, of the utilities linked below are free.
The Craig Cecil site also has some valuable helpers, including a CSS validator, an HTML validator, and links to other tools as well, such as the Bobby checker, that will tell you if your site is suitable with people who have physical or sensory challenges and can’t view the web the same way most of us do. That’s a fantastic page, you could be there for hours.
Designerwiz will also trace the network route to your server – good in the odd case that you can’t access your site or your host’s and everything else seems to be fine – sometimes it’s between your PC and the host, not that your host or the site is actually down.
Dr. Watson is a free service to analyze your web page on the Internet. Watson can also check out many other aspects of your site, including link validity, download speed, search engine compatibility, and link popularity.
Have fun – the more people who can see your site, the more use you’ll get out of the traffic you DO have.
