Web design and Usability Evaluation and Analyzer Tools That you Should Not Be ignoring

It is surprising to see that there are zillions of tools available to get all the details pertained to analyzing traffic, code and structure of your website but when it comes to evaluate the accessibility and design aesthetic , available tools are few and far between. Though a Google search may end up having a long list of such tools claiming to find and fix all those bugs that have been making your life miserable so far, not all of them are good enough for you. So, to simplify your task, here I am going to share some tools that will make your life a lot easier:


 

YSlow: If you are obsessively passionate about the performance of your website, YSlow is the tool that you should drooling over. This tool analyzes the performance of a website based on some set metrics. Apart from providing tools for analyzing performance,   it helps summarizing components of the page, displays page statistics and finally comes up with loads of suggestions to improve overall performance of the website.

 

Click Density: I hope you would certainly love to know exactly where your targeted visitors are clicking and which sections they are missing out on. With this tool, you will be able to track clicks and then position designing elements accordingly to get the desired outcome.

 

Pagealizer: This tool offers all the usage data that you need to make your landing page more appealing and it will go a long way to help you see more conversions. It offers amazing details like how far a page has been scrolled down by visitors, which sections draw the maximum clicks, average time spent on a page and a lot more.



Check My Colors: If you really care for your visitors, you should make sure that people with color deficits are not finding it tough to navigate your website. With this tool, you will be able to check the background and foreground colors of all DOM elements to ensure the fact that all these elements are generating desired level of contrast. This tool uses the algorithms for conducting the tests based on the suggestions of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).



Usabilla: If you wish to get feedback direct from your targeted audience, Usabilla is the tool you should be rooting for. It will let you gather feedbacks directly from the targeted audience and with these feedbacks, hopefully you will be able to locate and fix some common usability things. Users do not need to sign up for sharing their valuable feedbacks. They just need to click anywhere in the page and share their feedback. It is as simple as that.

 

Browsershots: Are you concered about how your website rendering in different browsers and operating systems? With this amazing tool – Browsershots, you will be able to test this thing without even spending a penny for that. It is fast, simple and yes, it is absolutely free.

 

User Testing: Do you want to get feedback from human evaluators from different parts of the website before making your website live? In that, User Testing is exactly what you might be looking for. Based on the demographics of your website, UserTesting will assign human testers to review your website.

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Michael Evans is passionate about photography, web design and development. He has also written several web design tutorials and works as a part time photographer for some leading journals.