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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