Saturday, 1 October 2011

22 Essential Tools for Testing Your Website’s Usability

Here is an excellent article which covers the current best practices on website usability, along with the latest tools which support usability testing: 22 Essential Tools for Testing Your Website’s Usability. It covers the following topics:
1. User Task Analysis
  • Learnability:
  • Intuitiveness:
  • Efficiency:
  • Preciseness:
  • Fault Tolerance:
  • Memorability:
  • Affordance:
2. Readability
  • Ease of Comprehension:
  • Legibility:
3. Site Navigability
  • Information Architecture (IA):
  • Findability:
  • Efficiency of Navigation:
4. Accessibility
  • Cross-Browser/Cross-Platform Compatibility:
  • Color Choice:
  • Use of HTML Accessibility Features:
5. Website Speed
  • Webpage Response Time:
  • Webpage Size:
  • Code Quality:
6. User Experience
  • Fulfillment:
  • Usefulness:
  • Enjoyment:
  • Positive Emotions:
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