The word everything is misleading. There are no tools out there that will allow you to test everything. This article gives you seven tools that will test things that may be important to you.

There are a lot of things to test for when creating a website, and there are lots of different tools out there. Lots of them are not very reliable, and many of the good ones must be paid for.

Have a look over the tools on this list to see if any may suit you and your website. As a warning, be careful when you enter your personal details into sites like these, as you have no idea who you are passing this information on to.

1. W3C markup validation service

This is a validator that checks the markup validity of your Web documents in HTML, XHTML, MathML, SMIL, etc. Whatever you may think of validators, it is always good to have the extra pair of eyes on your website, even if the eyes are software. Yes, it is true that is will miss glaring mistakes and at times it will give you bad advice, but can anyone say this is a terrible thing? After all, the spell-checker on word processors has the same faults and few people complain about that. At least the validator can pull you up on things that you missed by accident such as forgetting to close a line of code.

2. Links Validator

Grit your teeth as you read, as this is not really a “test everything” tool as promised in the title, but it is very useful and should be an addition to your current set of tools. There are other link validators that may be attached to bigger software, but this is a good one to have on its own. It will analyze your hyperlinks in your HTML/XHTML document. It is great for showing you your broken links, but the easy to use options means that you can check linked documents recursively, or hide redirects, or show a summary only, and a number of other options too.

3. Gomez

This is a tool that will test your website for 30 techniques relating to mobile website design. Each test will be rated from one to five. The poor results will show you where you need to improve and the good results will show you where you are doing well. The results are pretty self explanatory, and it also comes with a number of tips to help you improve your website once the tests have been run. You can improve your site and how compatible it is with other browsers.

4. WebAIM Wave 

This will test the accessibility of your website and will test it on technical levels. The details are then displayed back to you so that you can see where you are going right and wrong. It may easily reveal the accessibility of your page.

5. Pingdom Tools

This is a tool that is a few improvements away from genius. It tests your website on things such as speed and does it by testing how long it takes for certain website elements to load. Using this tool you can see which website elements are slowing down your website the most. You can then remove or improve your heavier and slower web elements.

6. Ahrefs Site Explorer & Backlink Checker

This is a very good tool that you can use for free a little before you pay them any money. It is fantastic for pulling up information relating to your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and your backlinks. The great thing about this program is that it deals in statistics that it also puts into very easy-to-understand graphics/visualizations. It is not just an SEO checker that is dedicated to an Alexa Rank or a Google PageRank. It gives you a lot of statistics so that you can analyze and evaluate them as you wish.

7. DotMobi Emulator

This one is a bit of a kicker because it requires you to download that stupid Java browser plugin that so many hackers love to exploit us with. Still, if you have the stomach for it then you can use this emulator to have a look at how your website looks on mobile devices. It is very good for testing your website on very old devices as well as newer devices. It means that you may avoid quite a number of problems with regards to compatibility and bugs that present on other browsers or screen sizes.

About the Contributor: Kate Funk is a self-employed writer at getanycontent.com. She primarily focus to write on topics about technology, gadgets and all the latest SEO trends which are attention-grabbing for networking aficionados.