Find Out Your Website's Grade

Posted by Hans de Ruiter

I stumbled upon an interesting and potentially useful website grading service today. Website Grader examines the homepage of a website, and brings together data from multiple sources in order to give an idea of how effective the marketing effectiveness of that website. More importantly, it provides tips on how to improve. For example, this website is not listed on DMOZ and Yahoo Directories, something that could be done in order to improve ranking.

This website's grade of 62 (at the time of writing) is not exactly great. However, it is a personal website, not a commercial one, so that is to be expected. What surprised me is that this site is in the top 13.3% of websites, according to Alexa. This is surprising, because the site averages about 55 visits per day. This is rather low compared to larger, more prominent websites. This suggests that there are a huge number of websites with little or no visitors.

The website grader updates its grade periodically, so the grade in the badge above may change from its curreent value of 62; hopefully in the positive direction. I will be taking some of its advice, such as attempting once again to get this site listed on DMOZ. I'm holding off on adding this site to Yahoo, since I do not really want to create a Yahoo ID, and have yet another unneeded email address. We shall see what difference these changes make.

Comments (1) | 23 February 2009