7 Web Analyzer Tools to Evaluate Your Web Design
An Effective web design has great layout so your website visitors can find the information he was looking for quickly. To creates an effective web design, you must take attention for a few things like:
- Do important information that you want to convey can be directly seen by your visitors?
- Do visitors find the content they are looking for on your site?
- Are visitors looking at the right place on your web page?
- Is your website easy to navigate?
- Do you have a web page loading fast enough to make visitors do not move to another website?
Here are some web analyzer tools that can be used to answer the above questions, so you can be easier to evaluate.
1. Clickheat
Clickheat is an open source web analyzer tool that can be used to display hot and cold zones of a web page. Hot zone shown in red and red color on the areas is most pages clicked by your visitor. You can download this tool at http://www/labsmedia.com/clickheat
2. Crazy Egg
Crazy Egg offers a lot of analytical tools that can be used to visualize what activities are most often done by your visitors. Overlay feature will provide a variety of data about the links on your web pages and confetti features can be used to view the properties of your visitors (the operating system used and from where they came from)
This tool can be downloaded at http://www.crazyegg.com. The free version can only be used to analyze four single web pages, so use on the web pages that most frequently visited.
3. YSlow for firebug
The main principle of effective web design is not only should be presented in a logical and elegant but also have to be displayed quickly and has a little delay. YSlow for Firebug is a free plugin for firefox that can provide information is a front end web page having a good performance or not. This plugin provides value to your page (A-F) and indicate which side has a problem. To be able to use this plugin you must use the Mozilla Firefox browser and download the firebug extension in http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug. Also download the plugin YSlow in http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yslow.
4. Clickdensity
Clickdensity is a complete package of web analyzer that can help you assess your website design. You can use Heat Maps to show where visitors click on most and Hover Maps feature is used to show you which visitors make the mouse hover on your links but not clicking.
Free trial of click density can be downloaded at http://clickdensity.com
5. Clicky
The most unique part of clicky is a real time tracking feature called a “spy”. Besides “spy” there is also another analysis of data that can be used. Such as, “user actions” that serve to record traces of a user clicks your website and “visitors” that serves to show your visitors that properties (IP address, OS and browser used). Demo of the tool can be downloaded at http://getclicky.com
6. ClickTale
ClickTale provides a wealth of data that can show visitor activity on your web. Suppose the average estimate of time it takes a user to click your link, the doubts of your user to click a link and the ratio between the success click and a mouse hover only. You can get it at http://clicktale.com
7. Google Analytics
One of the best free service from Google is Google Analytics. It’s very easy to use and offers many features that can help study the performance of your website pages. Site overlay feature that can give visual overview of the most popular places most clicked by your visitors and data on the top exit pages (where most pages make visitors leave your web)
They are 7 important web analyzer tools you need to know if you want to do optimization on your web page layout.
Keep in mind that good design lies in the combination of quality content and how you present that content on your website.
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Great post. Now I know what are those sites that would clearly evaluate my designs.
I am having my website redone also, and am always interested in new tools. As long as they aren’t “gimmicks”.
I’m interested in this article. I’m trying to redo my website and I guess just like in the garage, there’s nothing wrong with having too many tools!
Web analytics is not just a tool for measuring website traffic but can be used as a tool for business research and market research. Web analytics applications can also help companies measure the results of traditional print advertising campaigns.
The web developer tool for firefox is very nice and every web dev should atleast check it out once. You can do pretty much anything with it.
These should be some great tools. Thanks for sharing ‘em!
Thanks Andy
as I am a newbie, this information is valuable for me
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I use google analytics to maintain my blogs. It can provide many thing i need to improve my blogs. i combine it with google webmaster tool too.
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Hi andy,
Your post really helped me to understand the 7 web analyzer tools to evaluate our web designing. It has great details and yet it is easy to understand.
That’s what i was looking for. I will definitely share it with others.
Thanks for sharing.
wow, thanks for sharing. I will definately use them to analyze my website
thanks.
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Nice post. I learn something more challenging on different blogs everyday. It will always be stimulating to read content from other writers and practice a little something from their store. I’d prefer to use some with the content on my blog whether you don’t mind. Natually I’ll give you a link on your web blog. Thanks for sharing.
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Clickdensity is great tool but is not free, what a pity. But google analytics is all i need
You might want to have a look at etracker.com – they provide a lot of click tracking, surveys etc which you can add with the click of a button. Yet, their prices are pretty high for the high end modules, but pays out if you wish to analyze more than one page.
I like your list. I find too often that tools come and go so I tend to stick with the good ol Google analytics.
Of course I use Google analytics, but not just because it’s free. My clients are usually familiar with it as well. Although some of the features you’ve listed for these other services sound valuable . . .
This is a very informative article.I was looking for these things and here I found it. I am doing a project and this information is very useful me.
This is it! I’ve been working it on to have hints on web designing to analyze the appropriateness applied in my web too! This is a great help.
I just had my web site re done by a designer. I enjoyed reading your article. Gave me tons of info to be sure I got what I was actually paying for. I tried a few of these and it was so cool. Just wanted to say a great big thanks.
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