free website tune-up

Free Website Tune-up

These are free tools to validate HTML, verify links, optimize images for faster loading, and other webmaster tools to tune-up your website. Validators are automated tools that check a web page's (or entire website's) syntax for browser compatibility, spelling, missing end tags, and other problems.

Online Tools

The W3C HTML Validator below shows error types when parsing the page with an SGML parser; Runs WebLint HTML syntax and minimal style checker; and creates a parse tree. It opens in a new window.

AnyBrowser - Site Viewer lets you see HTML pages as other browsers would, or in different screen sizes. Link Checker for 1 static page at a time. HTML validation, and other website tune-up tools.

Delorie - Web page backward compatibility viewer.

Delorie - Web page purifier - view a page which has been "purified" to be compliant with a choice of various HTML standards, including Web TV 1.1.

Dr. Watson - HTML validator which checks syntax, links, search engine compatibility, link popularity, estimated download speeds, and more.

HtmlHelp - WDG HTML validator - validate 1 URL, 1 page from your computer, list of URLs (batch mode), pasted HTML, or entire site.

LinkScan - Verify Links and check HTML syntax with WebLint of 1 URL at a time.

Scripts & Programs

ARealValidator - HTML syntax checker for Windows which uses a sophisticated SGML parser - 30 day trial.

CyberSpyder - 60-day trial shareware - Link verifier with several nice features.

Html-Kit - HTML & text editor with GUI interface for W3C's HTML Tidy Validator for HTML, XML, and CSS. Editor has many features such as spell checker and thesaurus. For Windows 95/98/2000/NT4.

HtmlValidator - CSE HTML validator for Windows 95/98/2000/NT - Recommended.

LinkScan - Verifies links (over 40,000 links/hour!), validates HTML, and creates sitemaps (requires Perl 5 and Linux, Unix, or Windows NT/98).

SP - SGML parsing and HTML validation - available as C++ source code or binaries for Windows 95/NT, MS-DOS, Unix, Linux, Solaris, and others.

Tali - HTML Power Tools - 30 day trial - available in both Windows 3.x (16-bit) and Windows 95/98/NT/2000 (32-bit) versions - checks HTML for errors in any or all browsers, verifies links, weed out obsolete files, do site search and replace, and much more.

W3 - HTML Tidy - Fixes HTML mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely laid out markup.

Xenu's Link Sleuth - Spidering software to find broken links and make site map, for Windows 95/98/NT/2000.