Website Performance Tools

Testing your website’s design across various aspects like performance, accessibility, responsiveness on multiple devices, alt text, and crawlability is essential to ensure it meets high standards. Here are some free tools to help:

Google PageSpeed Insights - This tool analyzes your web page's content and generates suggestions for making it faster. It provides insights for mobile and desktop versions, including load times, and offers actionable recommendations.

Lighthouse - An open-source, automated tool, Lighthouse audits performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO, and more directly in the Chrome DevTools or as a browser extension.

WAVE - WAVE helps you evaluate your website's accessibility. It injects icons and indicators into your page to provide visual feedback about your content's accessibility. WAVE also checks the alt text on images throughout your website, helping to ensure your content is accessible and SEO-friendly.

Responsinator - Responsinator lets you quickly see how your website looks on different devices by simulating various screen sizes, helping you ensure a responsive design.

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools - While primarily a paid tool, Ahrefs offers a free version of Webmaster Tools that allows you to audit your website for crawlability issues, broken links, and more, providing valuable SEO insights. Ahrefs also offers an excellent free AI image alt text generator.

Google Search Console - Google Search Console is a must-have for any site because it asks Google to crawl your site in the first place. Once set up, it also helps you monitor and troubleshoot your website’s presence in Google Search results. It can check for crawl errors, mobile usability issues, and more.