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Dharmesh Shah

Website Grader — Grade your website's strengths and weaknesses in seconds.

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Dharmesh Shah
Maker
How strong is your website? Use Website Grader to diagnose your website’s performance on SEO, mobile, security, and more in seconds. Our goal with this free tool is to help anyone with a website -- developer, marketer, entrepreneur -- quickly grade their website’s components and find out what they need to improve for maximum effectiveness . We hope that Website Grader helps save time diagnosing, so you can focus on what needs to be done to make your website even better. Try it for your own website (or a competitors). FUN FACT: I personally developed the original version of Website Grader over 8 years ago, and it's been through a big overhaul recently. I wrote all the funny (I hope) quips you see while you're waiting for the report to generate. Would love any feedback or questions. We're cranking away trying to make the tool better. Thanks for checking it out.
Ben Tossell
@dharmesh keep getting an error when testing sites.
Rob Campion
Maker
@bentossell thanks for the feedback Ben. What's your site and we'll take a look? Some sites are difficult to load and test programmatically, hence we error out to the screen above. This may not be a reflection of the sites themselves.
Ben Tossell
@robert_campion it was Product Hunt.
Rob Campion
Maker
@bentossell We're looking into the Product Hunt grade also. Thanks for highlighting!
Jeff Needles
@dharmesh This is awesome. Pretty proud of the score I got (especially since -10 is just for not being HTTPS)
Hiten Shah
It's nice to see this change throughout the years. This is one of the first examples I can remember from 8 years ago of a SaaS company doing lead generation using a separate free tool. Nice work with the redesign @dharmesh and team! Feels smooth and simple, pretty much exactly what I would imagine most people want from a tool like this.
Dharmesh Shah
Maker
@hnshah Thanks, Hiten. Hard to believe it's been that long Appreciate all your support of me -- and HubSpot, over the years.
Ryan Hoover
This is fantastic, @dharmesh. Looks like we have some improvements to make at Product Hunt, fortunately some of which are already underway. 😁
Dharmesh Shah
Maker
@rrhoover Thanks. The tool is still a work in progress. We'll be working through all the great feedback coming in through the awesome Product Hunt community.
Ali R. Tariq
I've used variations of these kinds of tools before and their results left me feeling unfulfilled. This was different, though. Took me through the steps clearly and gave actionable results that I suspected my site was suffering from but never quantified before. Pretty sure I'll be using this again! Good job.
Ian
How much do I like this?! Well I've just added to my bookmarks bar so I have fast access to it all the time! Perhaps a Chrome extension can be created to get the score as well, which goes to the website for more detail.
Clark Wimberly
Looking really nice! One bit o' feedback: I tried testing on a site that's just sitting on an IP for now, and it wouldn't let me (said invalid URL). Would be nice to figure out a way to use this on stuff pre-launch.
Emil Stahl
@clarklab use a subdomain / temporary hostname?
Dan Brooks
A great idea. I decided to put it through hoops, including VPN and found varying results for different countries for the same site. Is there any sensitivity to the IP address?
Rob Campion
Maker
@ramtorn Hi Dan. Thanks for the feedback. Nope, we don't take into account where the request is coming from. There will sometimes be differences in the Performance tab score due to network latency, but it shouldn't vary drastically. For example, if a site takes 100ms to load the first time we grade, it shouldn't take 10 seconds to load the next time. Hope that helps answer your question?
Mark Osborne
Very useful thank you! I usually use Google PageSpeed Insights but this is much nicer and touches on SEO basics too. Regarding sitemap - is it trying to detect an XML file or a sitemap page for users?
Rob Campion
Maker
@mposborne Hi Mark. It looks for a sitemap.xml on the root domain and also checks the site's robots.txt for sitemap entries (the latter was only added today).
Ricardo Diaz
Great Product! Do you use any kind of cache? I mean, if I optimize the site according to the suggestions, am I going to see the new eval right away? or do I have to wait some time?
Rob Campion
Maker
@rdiazjimenez Hey. Thanks for the feedback! There's no cache for this very reason. We want people to update their site and see better grades instantaneously.
Colin Keeley
This is super helpful @dharmesh !! I love the dead simple design. Looks like we have some work to do on our performance at http://genevaapparel.com
Patrick Coombe
Great job Dharmesh and the team. This looks like a great tool and a great way to drive more leads. Any plans on open sourcing / offering it as a platform as a service to agencies looking to generate leads?
Nikhil V.
Really impressed with the concept here. I like the idea of going beyond just site speed and digging a bit into SEO, security, etc.
Leonel More
I like how Website Grader shows the results. I believe it would be nice if you add a link to download the report in a pdf format (just a print-in-a-pdf file style would work).
Craig Stanford
@dharmesh Well done! I love how you are pulling folks into the marketing funnel from a really simple landing page, and then providing immediate gratification and value at the same time.
Metehan Yesilyurt
@dharmesh This is great! I have a suggestion for your tool. You have partners. Why don't you make a customized and embedded grader tools? They can use embedded forms their websites or you can create APIs.
Yuyu
My first ever comment on Product Hunt and pretty excited to be part of the community. Love the sleek design, color and heavy font usage but what impressed me the most is how the information is being presented to end user. It kinda make the information easier to digest compared to other similar tools out there. It rates my site, http://thequotes.ninja, 94/100. Yay.. I shouldn't be complaining but it gave me 10/10 for security while my site isn't using any SSL certificate yet. I am not really sure how accurate this is as it is.
Francesco Strazzante
Wow it's awesome! It says where you're site goes wrong and how to repair! The advices are really helpful! Thanks for this!
Brendan Beirne
Super fast, and the results are easy to parse. I like the 'next steps' section at the bottom of the results page.
ryanmtaylor
One of the sites I tested stated I should install an SSL cert, but it's installed and working properly. Not sure if it's a bug on your side or if something actually should be fixed from my side :)
Sam Schooler
I love this! The whole website is very slick. Even the loading screen keeps you on the site with the little piece of text. Pretty proud of my score :P ![]()