What is Your Websites Grade?
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I know Twitter can be an information overload at times, but every once in a while I catch a post by one of my followers or someone whom I follow that catches my eye. Yesterday fellow photographer and Twitter user Seshu posted a link to websitegrader.com, a site that lets you analyze and grade your blog or website.
Now I was nowhere near the poster child for the public education system, so every time I see something that smacks of a report card it brings back some of that ol’ childhood anxiety. However what I found with websitegrader.com was a really useful tool for telling me exactly where my website or blogs shortcomings were.
My first spin through the site yielded me a 91/100 for photographershandbook.com, not to shabby and certainly better than I ever did in grade school. It also gave me tips on certain areas that could be improved, such as lowering the number of keywords and shortening my blog description. After making a few changes I quickly upped my score to a 94. I’ll continue to fine tune and see if I can get my grade any higher, but frankly I can live with a 94, if only i could have achieved such excellence as a kid.
Not only do you get the full report emailed to you, you can create a badge you can proudly display on your site or blog, yeah I know it’s essentially a free banner advertisement for websitegrader.com, but I’m proud of my score so I’ll display it on my site the internets equivalent to my parents refrigerator.
websitegrader.com was developed by the folks at HubSpot.com and have several other grading programs. If you jump over to Grader.com you’ll find other tools for grading your Twitter and Facebook accounts as well as Press Releases and a Personality Grader.
Grade your website or blog and post the results with links to your site in the comments, I’d love to see your site.
shauna maness:
this is such a great tool- thanks for sharing! i just ran mine and now i have some real, tangible, easy to fix things that will improve my site traffic… BRILLIANT!!
thanks a million!
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 at 6:40 am
Cris Mitchell:
Hey Shauna, glad you found it useful. I just checked out your site and blog and you are doing great work. You can check out Shauna’s site here http://www.shaunamaness.com/
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 at 6:45 am