69 Tools to Monitor, Measure, and Track Your Website
Published October 15th, 2007 in ToolsPAGE ANALYSIS:
- SEOmoz Page Strength Tool – A useful tool that gives an overall look at the strength of a page.
- Sitening’s SEO Analyzer – See if your pages are structured to achieve high search engine rankings.
- Self SEO’s Page Speed Checker – Test the load time of your pages and your competitor’s pages.
- GoogleRankings.com – Check the use of keywords and phrases on your site.
- Popuri – See several items such as PageRank and inbound links all at once.
- Keyword Density Analysis – See how frequently you are using certain words and phrases.
- Meta Tag Analyzer – How are search engine spiders seeing your meta tags?
- Code to Text Ratio – Check for code bloat.
- Strongest Subpages Tool – Finds the 30 strongest subpages on your domain.
- Similar Page Checker – Avoid duplicate content.
- SEO Analysis Tool – Measures the ranking potential of a page.
- WebSitePulse – A few different tools to test your sites performance.
- Website Grader – Get a score for your site and even compare it to competitors if you want.
- Watchfire WebXACT – Test for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.
STATS:
- Google Analytics – The leading free stats program.
- AWStats
- StatCounter
- AddFreeStats
- OneStat
- Smart Tracking
- Alexa – See where your site ranks.
BLOG STATS:
- FeedBurner – Stats on your feed and your subscribers.
- pMetrics – from Performancing.
- pMetrics Plugin- Extending pMetrics.
- IceRocket – Free stats program for blogs.
- Technorati – See who’s linking to you.
STATS PLUS:
- Crazy Egg – Provides visual data about your visitors.
- Mint – An extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program.
WEBMASTER TOOLS:
- Google Webmaster Tools – Lots of information that shows you how Google sees your site.
- Web CEO – A collection of a number of useful tools. Free and paid editions.
CHECK AND TRACK SEARCH ENGINE RANKINGS:
- Sitening’s SERP Tracker – Test your page’s optimization.
- Search Engine Rankings Checker – From Mike’s Marketing Tools.
- Google Banned Checker – Has the largest search engine in the world banned your website? Find out here.
- Number of Pages Indexed – How many pages do you have indexed by search engines?
- Website SEO Checkup – Make sure you’re ready to get high search engine rankings.
- GeoTargeting Detection Tool from SEOmoz – Determine how well your site is targeted to country specific search engines.
GOOGLE PAGERANK:
- PageRank Prediction – You need a minimum of 100 backlinks.
- Smart PageRank – Check your PR.
REPUTATION AND BUZZ MONITORING:
- Google Alerts – Have preset alerts sent to you by email.
- co.mments – Monitor comments on blogs.
- Conversation Tracker from BlogPulse
- Trend Search from BlogPulse
- Keotag – See if blogs are using your company name in the tags of their blog posts.
- BoardTracker – Watch for mentions of your company in forums.
LINKS:
- Dead Links tool from W3C – Find broken links.
- Link Popularity Checker – From Mike’s Marketing Tools.
- Xenu’s Link Sleuth – Find broken links.
- Backlinks and Anchor Text – See who’s linking to you and what anchor text they are using.
- Reciprocal Links Checker – Do you have agreements with others for reciprocal links? Check them here.
SPIDER SIMULATOR:
CSS ANALYSIS TOOLS:
- Clean CSS – Formatting and Optimizing
- CSS Tidy – Optimizer and parser.
- CSS Redunancy Checker – Redundancy is easy to do with CSS. Fix it with this.
- CSS Analyzer – A validator plus.
VALIDATORS:
WEBSITE PERFORMANCE:
GOOGLE ADSENSE:
- Free Charts and Graphs
- AdSense Notifier – Shows your AdSense stats in the status bar.
BROWSER COMPATIBILITY:
- BrowserShots – See screenshots of your page in a number of different browsers.
- Ready.mobi – Test your site for use with mobile browsers.
OTHER:
- Geotargeting – find the location of your host’s servers
- Find Your Site’s IP Address
144 Responses to “69 Tools to Monitor, Measure, and Track Your Website”
I would add to this list;
http://www.monitis.com – website performance monitor
http://mon.itor.us – free website performance and uptime monitoring
http://www.semonics.com – web search position monitoring (in beta)
http://www.mybuzzmonitor.com – buzz tracking widget for bloggers and website owners.
Excellent set of tools. You can also add http://site24×7.com under website performance.
Thanks for the list… some of these I had seen and use already but many I had not, so thanks for putting them down. Under buzz the Google Alerts are one I have used for quite a while and was surprised to hear the other day that not as many people use this great free tool as I thought, I certainly has its place on my list. Thanks again, Scott
I have been reading a lot of posts on your blog and many other blogs. I have found a ton of great information but for today I must say you have the best list going.
I gave you a Digg and a Stumble.
Thanks for these links. I have seen quite a few but it’s always great to have even more to add to my own lists.
Thank you for the information and the tools/links
Also useful: A free firefox add-on for website performance measurements (and general web testing)
Tim
Great set of tools! Thanks! BTW, Websitepulse which is listed under #12 also provides website performance services. Just a note for you!
Excellent compilation of links Steven. Great work as always.
Congrats on the Digg front page. You may want to add Clicky under “stats”. I use it for real-time tracking, it’s real nice for high-traffic monitoring.
how could you leave out LIVE CHAT?
Being able to monitor your customers and then engage them with live chat is very important to a site’s success these days.
Try http://www.chatstat.com (its FREEWARE)
Very nice list, some really handy sites, thank you very much.
So much tools for tracking traffic for one’s blog! But Google Analytic is a must for anyone.
Thanks just in time, before I started to make my own list.
Vijay
How about BrowserCam (www.browsercam.com) for cross-browser compatibility and Gomez (www.gomez.com) for performance?
Both pretty glaringly absent from an otherwise rock solid list
-john
You forgot HeatMap. It’s a small app that shows locations of where people clicked on your page. It’s a great way to see what items are hot or not.
http://armp.it/2007/04/13/heatmap-for-your-website/
This is a great list of tools. You should visit http://www.seonexus.com also. The report combines alot of tools and they provide free tracking. You can pay to get more goodies, but they are working at helping the small businesses get what they need easily and cost effectively.
Thank you for the information and the links!
Great source! Thanks for these
You missed dig pagerank http://www.digpagerank.com under Google Pagerank.
Its most popular pr checker but you missed.
Good list but you didn’t tell your visitors about best backlink checker tool url is http://www.backlinkchecker.com
great list …
havnt heard of many of these services …
am gonna like check them out now …
thanks for sharing …
appreciated …
Thanks for the article, really helpfull over all the SeoMoz, was my prefered link
Thanks
Thanks everyone for the suggestions and additions. I’m glad these tools will be of use to many of you.
No problem… great resource
-Omar
I’d like to suggest 2 more additions to the Stats category:
WebSTAT provides a free and paid tier for real-time tracking of stats on your site.
nextSTAT a robust SaaS statistics offering that provides a free 2-week trial and reasonable pricing.
Also, why would you recommend Google Analytics to people? Do you hate them? There’s a reason that Google Analytics is free — they use the data they collect to further their evil purposes. Don’t contribute to the empire. Just remember this: Urchin OnDemand used to cost $495/mo and now Google is giving it away free! You have to know they’re getting at least that much value out of it still…it just comes in a different way.
Really good compilation! Found some new things there.
Also take a look at Pingdom for Website monitoring:
http://www.pingdom.com/
And their Tools to test website performance:
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
Thanks for the tools. I have one I would like to add that I have never seen anywhere else. It is in beta right now, so do not add too many links right now, just add your exchanges and paid links. This tool is a backlink watcher. You do not even have to check your links, just login to the software and it will tell you if someone removed your link, changed the anchor text, or even if someone added a no follow. This way you do not have to worry about it.
http://www.gices.co.uk/LinkManager/
found over del.ico.us – a lot of new tools for me. Thanks for your time.
great list buddy . I have tried only a few .
My my, its busy out here!
Just popped out of my reader to say – great post mate!
Guess I’m a bit late
The list is looking good, I’m still trying some of the links……good post.
Great list! Also check out Webmetrics for website performance services:
http://www.webmetrics.com/performancemonitoring.html
They monitor uptime and measure performance for websites, transactions, streaming media and web services/APIs.
I have had experience with chatstat it doesn’t work as good as some of the others. But nice list of tools, I need to use some of them.
I gave you a Digg (almost 900 – impressive!) and a stumble for this one. These are some incredibly helpful resources and I once again applaud you for your great work. Steven, you are one of the best bloggers I know, hand down!
If you have a visualization category next time, have a look at glTail. Movie available at my website.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions.It will help me a lot.
Great info, bookmarking it
Wow, It will take me few days to check all of these tools. They are quite handy. THANKS!
Excellent list of tools. You really have done a very helpful list. Thanks.
That’s the list of my bookmarks! =)
Thank you, this is a very good list of resources with which to monitor and measure performance of our site. My teammates and I recently relaunched our site, so measurement has become top of mind. Thanks again!
A fantastic effort.
Great list and thanks to other contributors that helps on grow the list
This is a great list. Some of these I have not tried yet. It’s always great to find a tool or software that makes everything easier, quicker, and more efficient.
Your comment contains very useful information about all thank you Tercüme Bürosu
i did all my best to get links back one way and also seo on the pages but stell my website not where i want is any bady here can help.
great idea i well tray on my website
Thanks nice set of tools
Thank you very much for your valuable list..
Hi, could you please include SightMax Live Chat, SightMax.com in your stats listing. SightMax features live chat and monitoring, with keyword reports, site traffic profiling, etc. SightMax is used my many fortune 500 companies, as well as smaller sites looking for a competitive edge on their competition.
Great post! thanks for sharing!
Very good list, thanks!
Take a look at http://site-perf.com/ – another site performance measurement tool, just like pingdom.com but much more realistic.
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thnak you……….
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I would second your listing of WebCEO as I started out with it. Heck, it even has built in tuition and videos on SEO and competitor analysis…
The cost… zero.
How about another list for plug-ins like SEOQuake etc?
Very comprehensive list and well thought out.
Excellent compilation of links Steven. Great work as always.
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Nice list for me ! Thanks for share
The list is looking good, I’m still trying some of the links
Excellent Very Complete list, Just about everything you would need to monitor your site is covered in this.
Complete list. Thanks man, really great job.
I really need it. Will be come again later.
Under Website Performance, you should list Webserviceguard.
http://www.webserviceguard.com
Very reliable service!
Great tools! I would like to add http://www.copyscape.com/
This site enable you check if your content is unique and original, or if someone else has copied your website content – helps stop plagiarism.
If you tried and liked the SEO Workers Analysis Tool, we have just published a nice Firefox Extension which you can analyze a web page with just a single click https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10455
Pls add this under website performance.
http://www.mywebkpi.com personally have been using this site for a long time and it works nicely giving me online alive/dead status plus if alive provides me KPI reading.
You can try out the live demo here http://67.207.139.161/cgi-bin/demo-cgi
Rgds
Joe
It has long been looking for a detailed list of SEO-services. However, I failed to find a working online service for determining the Pagerank of all internal pages on my site … : (
Great list of solutions
Great list. I would also suggest http://100pulse.com the best kind of it I use to monitor my sites.
Free uptime monitor (every 5 min) and free sms alerts – http://monitor.mazecore.com
Also free keywords position and website rank monitor
Hi! You should also consider http://www.estimix.com They provide a nice summary of the website performance. I trust that you’ll find this very useful cause it seems to use the Alexa traffic information quite well and provides much better traffic information.
http://spydermate.com would fit in well on this list under the page analysis category.
I’m using this service to monitor my website’s rank – http://monitor.mazecore.com . They provide position and uptime monitoring with alerts, but rank monitoring on free account is enough for me. I recommend this service with free tariff
Nice post! but you fogot to add free website monitoring – http://monitor.mazecore.com
Thanks for the valuable and informative post.
Thanks for this list – some really useful website monitoring tools here! These will definitely come in use in the future!
Very good list of tools, thank you for sharing this with us.
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