Impressive Website Usability Resources

Posted in Tools | On 27th January 2010 | 4 Comments

Testing your site’s usability is something everyone really should do, usability covers things such as colour contrast, website speed and performance, ensuring elements are placed correctly and general on site aspects such as broken links and cross browser compatibility.

Below are 8 interesting tools which check various aspects of your site and provides you with information and gives you some idea how to rectify any issues it encounters, all of the tools below are free to use.

ClickHeat

Opensource solution which tracks clicks and places then on a visual heatmap.

Colour Contrast Check

Determines whether a combination of a foreground and and background colour provide enough contrast.

Dead Links

Checks your website for broken links.

Five Second Test

Free test which identifies stand out elements on your user interfaces.

Google Website Optimizer

Free tool from Google which allows you to optimise your websites.

Stainless Vision

Allows you to visualize acceptable contrast ranges over a palette.

Usability Test

Join up to this usability community and gain feedback and give feedback to other users.

WebSiteOptimization

Free tool that tests your site’s speed and performance.

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