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7 Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design

sixrevisions.com — If you’re interested in analyzing and optimizing your page layout - here’s some extremely useful tools that you can use to help.

Who dugg this? Made popular Apr 22, 2008

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  • chandan333, on 04/22/2008, -1/+36I always thought that Google analytics is more about traffic analysis but I didn't know about the site overlay feature in google analytics.Thanks for sharing that.
  • Cenobite, on 04/22/2008, -1/+24They forgot the Web 2.0 Validator - http://web2.0validator.com/
  • stutimandal, on 04/22/2008, -3/+17Title incorrect: Useful for website analytics/analysis. Not for testing the website itself, but for learning the traffic patterns.
  • dyranios2, on 04/22/2008, -0/+14ITS A TRAP DONT DO IT MAN!
  • mtwolf, on 04/22/2008, -1/+12site overlay has been present for some time. The other cool thing is to see traffic flow and look at exit points.
  • xerigen, on 04/22/2008, -1/+9Funny, I don't see the word 'incredible' in the title.
  • SomeImagination, on 04/22/2008, -0/+8ClickHeat on 21st of April: http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/2581/fuej4.jpg
    Classic!
  • Newedge14, on 04/22/2008, -0/+6really useful, the only one I used before was Google Analytics.. time to beef up the statistics
  • copesc, on 04/22/2008, -1/+6Nice list, yes Google Analytics is still in advantage due to many website using it as a traffic tracking tool.. no additional code to add.
  • timusca, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4Try validating the Web 2.0 Validator.
  • customgamer, on 04/22/2008, -3/+7http://duggmirror.com/design/7_Incredibly_Useful_T ...

    cheers.
  • birdadderley, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4Crazy Eggs... speaking of which can anyone find the clickheat easter egg? ;)
  • Neticule, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Dude, you hate lists? You dont hate bacon too, do you? :(
  • Landonr, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3You'r not even trying...
  • beermad, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Install the Fasterfox extension and your browser will time it for you. To the millisecond, which is rather more accurate than a stopwatch.
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  • MavRevMatt, on 04/22/2008, -2/+4I've used a few of these tools before, namely Google Analytics, but the others just help to complement the ones I knew of. It's rare I say this, because I hate lists, but... great list.
  • JonnyCasino, on 04/22/2008, -3/+5Just think when Ajax was just a newbie on the scene, and the critics thought page view stats would be difficult to track with the new technology. Well, Crazy Eggs and sites alike are now giving you the ability to track visitors right down to their mouse moves. Woot! My personal favorite on the list has to be Crazy Eggs. good write!
  • FistOfBlog, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2They forgot the grammar checker too.
  • keyo, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2Heh that thing's a laugh, I checked it out a couple of days ago. It told me I have no social book marking links.
  • robuk24, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2haha
  • findhostcoupons, on 03/14/2009, -0/+1Thanks for sharign all these effective tools!
  • jggube, on 04/22/2008, -3/+4The site overlay feature is relatively new, I think. Although I think the other tools are much better if you want a visual "heat map" tool.
  • Bara, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2For some reason the site overlay feature has never worked on my vBulletin forums... Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
  • knuckles, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1*****! Accidently dugg you down when trying to digg you up. Totally sucks we can't undo errors like that. Sorry.
  • elf25, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1...for writing your site... maybe... but not likely.
  • finn, on 04/22/2008, -2/+3the two most useful things for evaluating web design are: two eyes. thats it. if the site fails to satisfy those two essential tools, then it fails at everything else too, period.
  • upick, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2these tools are so cool! Love "Click Heat" its open source!
  • sabinder, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Good list of tools. Clickheat is pretty impressive.
  • cyberdash, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2My personal favorite is sight.
  • KimtasticG, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Can I use Clickheat on my Cafepress shop?
  • Jan33, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0How many of these work with flash-only sites? Anyone?
  • SenyWD, on 02/24/2009, -0/+0Download free standards compliant CSS layouts: http://www.free-css-layouts.com
  • jennyfofenny, on 04/22/2008, -0/+0It doesn't seem that incorrect - those programs are useful for evaluating the UI of the design, not necessarily markup, etc.
  • sonicularulus, on 04/22/2008, -4/+4I have one useful tool...
    its called a stopwatch. when your page takes too long to load, then you know something is wrong...
  • WomensUnderwear, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1***** crazyegg
  • Miamifan1354, on 04/22/2008, -3/+3Some useful stuff, but doesn't help in the actual design of a site
  • WomensUnderwear, on 04/24/2008, -0/+0overlay has always been limited and buggy
  • antdude, on 04/22/2008, -2/+2http://duggmirror.com/design/7_Incredibly_Useful_T ...
  • HowardTO, on 04/25/2008, -1/+0Check out Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 an new easy to use web design tool with a WEB2.0 - flair.ttp://www.bitrixsoft.com/sitemanager/demo.php.
  • gothicform, on 04/22/2008, -3/+2Clickheat looks fabulous. I'll see it is installed later on mine...
    What's with that crazy egg pricing though. They only seem to support up to quarter of a million visitors which is pretty pointless, like I'm going to pay $80 a day for a web analysis tool (!) I would expect them to be competitive with other webtools, not grossly overpriced. Booo.
  • thetopcrusader, on 04/22/2008, -5/+4"The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. You need to take advantage of that." -- Strong Bad, on web design
  • JustWhatever, on 04/22/2008, -1/+0These are pretty damn cool. I'm really liking ClickHeat and Crazy Egg
  • krevenJB, on 04/22/2008, -3/+2mirror??
  • pengas, on 04/22/2008, -9/+7dugg down for using the using 'incredible' in the title.
  • falese, on 04/22/2008, -3/+1poopie.
  • cougs, on 04/22/2008, -4/+1cool. great stuff
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