Tools For Testing Your Website

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If you are a webmaster and want to make your website look same in all browsers, you should use these usefull 15 tools to test your website for various parameters:HTML errors, CSS errors, Browsers errors etc.

Validators

1. HTML Validator
http://validator.w3.org/
HTML Validator validates  markup language HTML, XHTML etc.

2. Links Validator
http://validator.w3.org/checklink
This tools check for errors in the links within your website

3. CSS Validator
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
CSS Validator checks validity of CSS stylesheets

4. Free Site Validator
http://freesitevalidator.com/
This tools checks whole site for various errors and generates a report

5. RSS Feed Validator
http://validator.w3.org/feed/
This tools will check your RSS feed for any errors

Cross Browser Testing

6. Microsoft Expression SuperPreview
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/
Microsoft Tool that compares your site on different browsers.

7. Xenocode
http://www.xenocode.com/Browsers/
Xenocode runs any browser you want to test your website. It can run different versions too, for example: IE6, IE7 and IE8.

8. IeTester
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/
This is a tool that incorporates all version of IE in one desktop application.

9. Browsershots
http://browsershots.org/
Test your website with different browsers and different OS

Accessibility

These are few of accessibility checking tools:

10. Hera
http://www.sidar.org/hera/
HERA is a tool to check the accessibility of Web pages accoridng to the specification Web Content Accessibility Guidelines(WCAG 1.0).

11. WebAIM Wave
http://wave.webaim.org/
Wave is my favorite Accessibility service – it shows you the mistakes and it is quite productive.

12. Functional Accessibility Evaluator
http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/
Use this tool to evaluate the functional accessibility of your web site.

Test Website Performance

13. Pingdom Tools
http://tools.pingdom.com
Gives an analysis of your website speed and loading of elements

14. Web Page Analyzer
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ 
generates a report for your website performance

15. YSlow
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
Helps you optimize speed of your website