12 Google Chrome Extensions for Webmasters
Here are the 12 Google Chrome extensions that we think make the best cut for the webmaster in you.
1. SEO For Chrome
SEO For Chrome is your best bet if you’re looking for a tool to obtain tools and stats for search engine content optimization. Chrome SEO has tools to research keywords, no follow links, indexing of total pages, checking back links and page rank, highlight current traffic and ranking, WhoIs and domain details, on-page keyword analysis and server locations. What’s more, with this extension, you can also integrate PPC integration for Adwords and AdSense, along with Google Analytics.
2. Site Information Tool
There’s an excellent Chrome SEO extension for you if you want current page info such as Alexa Rank, Page Rank, WhoIs and IP information and so on. It’s the Site Information Tool, which lets you have all of this info including the title and Meta tags of the pages you want, ranking of a page within social networks and top performing Google keyword lists. A good webmaster knows how long it takes to find all this info; best to get the Site Information Tool extension and be done with it.
3. Resolution Test
Resolution Test Chrome Extension allows you to test web pages in different resolutions. This tool actually modifies Chrome’s display parameters in order to demonstrate how a site appears on various screen resolutions. For a quick test, select multiple resolutions and view your webpage in quick succession in different selected resolutions.
4. Speed Tracer
As per Google, site speed is an important parameter that’s taken into account for site ranking purposes. Webmasters need to be wary of their site’s speed and know of any factors contributing to slowdown. Speed Tracer measures web application and website performance and identifies and fixes performance issues. This useful extension checks all aspects such as CSS, Javascript, site layout, network resources, loading times, code, execution and so on to analyze issues.
5. Webpage Screenshot
If you want to edit a static image of your entire webpage to optimize Ad layouts, use the Webpage Screenshot Chrome extension. No matter how long your webpage is, this extension takes a complete screenshot of it and gives you a JPG output. Plus, you’re not sending any private data out when you use this tool, even though the tool allows you to upload and share the image with others.
6. Google Share Button
One click of the Google Share Button and you can share any webpage through email or social media accounts on Digg, Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace and so on. You can add more social bookmarking and networking services to your Frequently Used Services list.
7. Shareaholic
Shareaholic is a cool way to share any webpage with your pals on over a 100 social bookmarking and networking services, including Delicious and Google Buzz. You can save all your favorite services and choose which ones to share a page with. What’s more you can also quickly access URL shorteners and keyboard shortcuts meant for different sharing services.
8. Chrome Editor
With Chrome Editor, you can now make all the HTML changes you need right within the browser. This means you don’t have to contently keep toggling between your code editor and browser to monitor changes. The extension auto saves code as you type and allows you to save code locally or email it, does W3C code validation and also provides time-saving shortcuts.
9. Chrome Sniffer
Don’t bother analyzing any website’s source code to find out what technologies, applications or scripts are powering the website. Just run the Chrome Sniffer extension and you’ll be presented with a list of every Javascript, CMS and libraries that the site is using.
10. Eye Dropper
Want to know what color palette has been used by a webmaster on a particular site? Use the Eye Dropper Chrome Extension. You can not only see all the colors used on the site, but can also tweak and experiment with colors using the tool’s color swatches and wheel.
11. PlainClothes
The PlainClothes extension does what the name indicates. It strips a website of all its CSS, rendering the site the way it will look without its styles. As a webmaster, you are now left with a CSS-free site to analyze the site’s accessibility and content viewabilty. This analysis helps you understand how viewers rely on the styles to view content.
12. IE Tab Multi (Enhance)
Using IE Tab Multi Chrome Extension, you can simulate the behavior of Internet Explorer on your Chrome browser. This allows you to view sites that are designed only for IE. You can even run ActiveX controls on the site when the IE Tab is running.
Guest post by: Dean from Invesp. Invesp is conversion rate optimization Company and provides landing page optimization and online campaign management solutions to ecommerce businesses of all sizes.
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