There are a number of tools that aggregate plenty of useful SEO related information on one page. The idea is that you can quickly evaluate any page and get an instant access to each individual source for more information.
I can’t say I use them very often but at times that’s really very convenient when you need a quick SEO overview (the star-rating for each tool reflects my personal opinion, please try and express your opinion on that).
QuarkBase.com provides a huge range of useful data including:
- On-site information (meta description, tags);
- Popular pages (per Digg, Delicious, Twitturly, StumbleUpon, Reddit);
- Alexa traffic details;
- Technorati reactions;
- Hosting details.
The overall tool usefulness: 
Website Grader aggregates a lot of on-site data and also lets you compare your site with your chosen competitor. The tools also highlights general issues found (e.g. heading improper usage, too many images, etc).
The overall tool usefulness: 
The analysis lists:
- Page metadata;
- Heading summary;
- Image summary;
- Interior page analysis (a deeper look at a couple of your subpages);
- Readability level;
- Domain info;
- Google PageRank;
- Google indexed pages;
- Last Google crawl date;
- Traffic rank (Alexa);
- Inbound links (plus Dmoz and Yahoo directory mentions);
- Blog analysis (recent blog articles and Technorati rank);
- Social media analysis (Delicious bookmarks and Digg score);
- Top keyword Google rank;
- Analysis summary.
CubeStat.com gives a lot of data (in a handy list style) and also calculates the website worth (that I actually don’t advise to rely on).
The overall tool usefulness:
- Alexa, Quantcast and Compete rank;
- Backlinks;
- Google indexed pages;
- Dmoz mentions;
- WhoIs data.
Statbrain.com provides the following website related information (only for domain level, no subfolders or subdomains).
- Meta description and keywords;
- Alexa traffic;
- Backlinks (based on Google and Yahoo);
- Server location.
The overall tool usefulness: 
The site also gives the list of “related” sites: international resources of similar size and also similar-niche sites.
Popuri.us aggregates data from:
- Google PageRank
- Alexa Rank (often broken);
- Compete Rank;
- Quantcast Rank
- Google BackLinks;
- Yahoo BackLinks;
- Live Search BackLinks;
- Technorati Links;
- del.icio.us Bookmarks (also broken);
- Bloglines subscribers.
The overall tool usefulness:
What’s more, it provides a direct link to each service for you to easily view the results:
Test Everything does nothing more but centralizes a plenty of links in one place for your convenience:
- enter the URL you want to explore;
- choose the category;
- put ticks for the tools you want to check;
- push “Test website”;
- get a list of generated links to the reports at the services you chose at #3.
The overall tool usefulness:
Comments
24 responses so far ↓
Maing on Oct 21, 2008 at 7:51 am
I’ve never used quarkbase,i’ll give it a try.
Vipey on Oct 21, 2008 at 8:57 am
Great list ann thanx,
ive used website grader before and its a decent enough tool
Andrew on Oct 21, 2008 at 3:52 pm
My favorite all time SEO tool was Mcdar’s top ten analysis tool. Since it stopped working I have yet to find a good replacement. Has anyone else?
Gidseo on Oct 21, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I have to confess I prefer a more organic approach; I think it helps to spend more time looking at a site and get more of a feel for it.
It’s all too easy to miss useful/important stuff if you don’t spot it early on - such oversights can cost far more time in the long run…
mcraan on Oct 21, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Thanks for the list.
Kaushik Patowary on Oct 22, 2008 at 1:31 am
Great tools. I used Quarkbase before and I liked it. Website grader is cool.
Ann Smarty on Oct 22, 2008 at 2:58 am
@Gidseo, definitely so… That’s why I said I only used them when I need to have a quick look at the site.
Amish Keshwani on Oct 22, 2008 at 7:48 am
Hey Ann,
Great list, I have used Website grader but didn’t gave a try to any other in the list. Thanks for the list. I will surely goona try it. This tools are really useful when we need to give first hand analysis to client or track the stats report of the client’s site.
Kim on Oct 22, 2008 at 11:34 am
Thanks for the ideas. I have been using tagurls.com. It seems the data is months old. Does anyone know which programs have fresh info?
Ted Murphy on Oct 22, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I’ve been using these guys lately for a quick check:
http://www.dnfame.com
Leila on Oct 23, 2008 at 4:25 am
thanks for the list Ann, free SEO tools can be handy.
I’m curious though. As a professional SEO type person, what is your take on paid SEO analysis tools? I’m pretty sure you would say something similar to that depending on the tool…but could you give an over all opinion? I’m interested to know…
Devaki Phatak on Oct 23, 2008 at 4:48 am
Thanks for this list. I had used Website Grader but Quarkbase looks good. Useful for a quick check of top indicators.
Doug Heil on Oct 23, 2008 at 8:23 am
http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/why-website-grader-is-a-bad-idea/
I think many need to read that blog post from Michael Gray, then come back here to explain why some Alexa rank or how many bookmarks/profiles you have in social sites is telling you something you need to know.
Read his post carefully please. I agree with every bit of it.
smarks on Oct 23, 2008 at 10:15 am
@Doug Heil, I agree with you, numbers speak only some part of the story.
I like quarkbase though. I am using it to get information about websites i find interesting. Seems to be more than just seo.
websitegrader is okayish. it just shows me almost similar textual information again and again.
if u just want numbers, then I think popuri or cubestat are good.
eric on Oct 24, 2008 at 8:11 am
Thanks Ann for making known the wide choice of SEO tools. May try out the Website Grader.
Cookbook on Oct 24, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Excite tools! I will try out SEO tools. Thanks Ann.
ethnicomm on Oct 24, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Ann - thanks for this great list - your screen caps and rankings are very helpful.
Sam Cabal on Oct 24, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I just recently launched a tool that provides an all-in-one SEO View focused on the Competitive aspects.
http://www.reviewmyweb.com
Chris on Oct 31, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Great list. has anyone used web ceo? i’ve been using it, it seems ok, but i don’t trust the accuracy.
ajey on Mar 19, 2009 at 7:11 pm
http://www.crunchbase.com
Mikey on Jun 11, 2009 at 7:57 am
Glad I found this. More useful tools. Thanks.
Brandon Buttars on Jun 11, 2009 at 10:15 am
Awesome list. Quarkbase is awesome. I didn’t even know it existed until this article.
Audio_Books_Geek on Jun 12, 2009 at 12:04 am
very useful tools. need to pay more attention to my site
Richard Pelletier on Jun 29, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Hubspot’s Website Grader is a perfect entry point into this arena. It tells you what’s going and provides useful information on how to address whatever issues present themselves. They produce tons of useful free content. Great company!
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