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This is likely of little interest unless you are hosting your own bits, and are looking for “Tech”.  Fair warning, and all that tommy-rot.

https://www.google.com/analytics/siteopt/ for web site optimization.

http://www.validome.org/google/validate validate your sitemap.xml or sitemap.xml.gz etc.

http://blog.bit.ly/post/93170671/a-big-week-for-little-urls URL shortening, with custom logging. I like their transparency, and checks for “bad” sites.  http://bit.ly/ create an account, get [anonymous] stats of clicks. Just how popular was that YouTube video link you sent out?

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Various header checks for compression : http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/ http://nontroppo.org/tools/gziptest/ http://www.seositecheckup.com/html_compression_status.php

The W3C is really the de facto standard : here’s some great tests and info from them :

The Basics – what you should run on all your web pages

• The MarkUp Validator. – Also known as the HTML validator, it helps check Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML, SVG or MathML.
• The Link Checker – Checks anchors (hyperlinks) in a HTML/XHTML document. Useful to find broken links, etc.
• The CSS Validator – validates CSS stylesheets or documents using CSS stylesheets.

The above three can be used all-in-one by running the Log Validator. Unlike the others, this tool helps improve the quality of a whole site, step by step, by finding the most popular documents that need to be fixed in priority. Learn more about this method in the Web Standards Switch document.

Developing mobile-friendly content? The MobileOK checker is a one-stop service to check your Web site and improve its mobile-friendliness.

Also in the works is the Unicorn, our project to build a Universal Conformance Checker for the Web.

Specific Tools – for Specific Needs

• Semantic Extractor – Sees a Web page from a semantic point of view. Extracts such information as outline, description, languages used, etc.
• RDF Validator – Checks and Visualize RDF documents
• Feed Validator. – Checks newsfeeds in formats like ATOM and RSS.
• P3P Validator – Checks whether a site is P3P enabled and controls protocol and syntax of Policy-Reference-File and Policy
• XML Schema Validator
• We also have developer several human-centered test tools: the Mobile Test Harness (code) is Web-based harness for browsers test suites, that offers users the possibility to record results on whether the browser they’re using passes or not a set of test suites; and MUTAT – an (older) human-centered testing framework developed in perl (code)

Open Source

All software developed at W3C is Open Source / Free software. Which means that you can download and use them for free, if you like. It also means that you are welcome to participate in making them better, cooler, more useful for you and everyone.

• Check each project for instructions on how to download their source code, and install them on your system
• All the QA tools are maintained by the volunteer developers of the QA-dev group. Why don’t you join?

http://validator.aborla.net/ more validation, alternate folks

Validate your feed at feedvalidator.org

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