Resources > Free Website Review Tool
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Download our Free Website Review Tool
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At Hot PJ we hear a lot of disturbing stories from website owners who have been left high and dry by their developers, often with little understanding of how their site works or how well it is performing.
As part of our philosophy at Hot PJ to help fellow website and business owners, we have developed a number of free tools and resources, including the Website Audit Review Tool.
We use this website audit review tool in our business to provide clients with an independent view on how their site is performing. Review areas include site navigation, the messages on the website, design, functionality and how well the site is set up to perform in search engines.
This very same tool is now available as a free download to assist you to evaluate the performance of your own site.
You can use any of the questions as a prompt with your own site developers or as a means of reviewing the site yourself. Better still get an independent person (who won't be shy with their opinion) to use this tool to review your site.
At the end you should have a clearer picture of how well your site is performing and where changes, if any, can best be made.
No time to do the review yourself?
If you don't have anyone available to impartially review your site, then contact Hot PJ. We offer a completed review utilising our extensive experience in marketing and website development, for just $280 plus GST.
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Download our Free Website Review Tool
(112kb PDF)
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Plus - 4 Top Tips from the Hot PJ Web Team:
- Register your domain name yourself rather than through a third party, such as your developer.
It is easy to do and can avoid lots of headaches should you ever wish to part company with the person or company who registered the domain name on your behalf.
This way all communications regarding your domain name will go straight to you, rather than someone else, and there is less chance of loosing the domain name because someone forgot to pass the renewal notice on.
If your domain name is already registered you can easily check who is listed as the registrant on most domain name registration websites, such as www.discountdomains.co.nz or www.domainz.co.nz. If it isn't registered to you, and you think it should be, you can request the registrant transfer the domain name to you.
- Know your site host FTP details.
The FTP details are the 'keys' to your site, make sure you get them from your developer or whoever has organised the hosting for your site.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is used to download and upload your website files to and from the host server (the place where your website lives).
FTP details typically consist of three sets of information; an IP address (a series of numbers separated by full stops), a login and your password. Keep them in a safe place. Should you wish to change developers you will need to have this information available so your website files can be downloaded from the host server and worked on, then the new files uploaded.
- Make sure your host company is regularly backing up your website.
Websites are meant to be dynamic, meaning the information on them changes over time. If your hosting company is not backing up your site and they have a problem resulting in your website files being lost or damaged, you could be faced with having to build your website again from scratch.
- Know how to access and best use your website's statistical data.
Most commercial hosting packages come with access to historical information on who, where and when visitors came to your site. Ensure you know how to access this information and also how to best use the data they provide. If in doubt ask your developer or hosting company.
Information such as least and most popular site pages and downloads, entry and exit pages, referrers (search engines and other sites directing visitors to your site), can help you to make improvements to your site in key areas.
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