Free Tools To Grade Your Small Business Website
Looking for specific recommendations to improve your small business website without breaking the bank? If so, you’re in luck.
There are some free tools you can use to analyze your online storefront and determine if your site is optimized for search engines, user friendly, and firing on all cylinders.
All you have to do is enter your url and within seconds, you have a detailed and comprehensive report that evaluates how well you’re doing.
Best of all, you also get instant and actionable online marketing advice—taking the guesswork out of how well your site is actually performing.
Here are my 2 favorite free website graders for small businessess...
Test My Site With Google
You rarely get a chance to take a peek behind the curtain to understand what's important to Google and the way they view your website which is what makes this tool so useful. Just plug in your website url into Google Test My Site and within seconds, you get a mobile speed report along with specific recommendations for improvement.
What I like most:
- Insights directly from Google
- Specific recommendations from Google on how to optimize the speed of pages on your site
- Incredibly easy to use and understand
- Free
HubSpot’s Marketing Grader
HubSpot’s Marketing Grader allows you to evaluate the effectiveness of your online marketing by looking at a number of factors including: blogging, social media activity, SEO, lead generation, and mobile responsiveness.
Similar to Shopify, Marketing Grader assigns an overall score using a scale of 1-100. You can then click on each category to see how you’re doing as well as access helpful checklists.
What I like most:
- Overall focus on lead generation and helping you improve your sales pipeline
- Customized, marketing-focused action items
- Incredibly easy to use and understand
- Free
Grading Your Small Business Website
Shopify’s Store Grader and HubSpot’s Marketing Grader can both be very effective tools for identifying specific ways to improve your small business website.
However, before you go out and completely overhaul your site based on their results, make sure you carefully review each recommendation to make sure it’s right for your specific business, your online marketing strategy, and your customers.
As with any free tool, if you only come away with one new actionable insight that you can use that’s definitely well worth the time and effort. Plus, you just can’t beat the price!
How are you evaluating the success of your website?
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