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Whenever you start a new website, you want to make sure everyone can see it, that it loads quickly, and that hackers can’t bring it to its knees. Here are a few useful web tools to make sure you cover all three:

1. Accessibility. A-Checker – An accessibility testing tool. Simply enter the URL or upload the html file of the site page you want to evaluate, and it will test it according to HTML standards and accessibility standards.

2. Speed. Pingdom Full Page Test – This complete tester will load your entire web page, including images, CSS, flash, and anything else you might have stuck in there. It then evaluates the overall speed as well as each item.

3. Security. Zero Day Scan – An online service that tests your website for security vulnerabilities such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and more. It then generates a report of the test results. Domain ownership verification is required.

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Once you have successfully developed a website, you will need to perform periodic evaluations to ensure that it continues to meet web standards, accessibility guidelines, and is usable on multiple platforms. You can have the most beautiful website ever created, but if it is too slow and crashes a user’s browser, you have lost a visitor, and possibly a customer.

An easy way to test your website’s speed in the worst conditions, is to load it on the slowest computer you can find, on the slowest possible connection. The more single-page text, styles, images, and animations you have, the longer it will take for a browser to process it and display it.

There are also two website speed tool tests you can try: iWebTool has a speed test that will measure up to 10 domains at once. It will download your website’s actual pages and tell you how long it takes. Pingdom has a test that will examine the entire page, telling you the load times for each content item, including images. Both tools are useful, and after you have your results, compare them with other websites of similar size and content. Finally, make the necessary changes to your site, and reap the benefits.

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