One of the great things about an analytics tool is that it allows you to track how your visitors use your website. Robot Replay goes one step further in actually recording their time on your site and allowing you to replay their actions via a video.
 

Along with some other common website design mistakes, you really want to avoid a slow website so checking and improving the speed of a website must be one of the things that you perform when it comes to releasing a new site for a client. We've come up with a quick checklist of some of the things we do before "going live" which you can hopefully incorporate into your own list.
 

Search Engines are often reported to penalise you for having duplicate content on your web pages. This can be a problem especially when using dynamic parameters in your URL's as your rankings can be negatively affected if you don't do something about it. This is wherethe "Canonical" tag comes in to help.
 

Whenever you come up with a new blog post, a new marketing idea or simply a new page on your website, you want to track it to see how well it does and who is talking about it. Using Google Alerts, you can receive an email whenever that page is indexed by Google so you can see exactly who is talking about you!
 

One of the biggest challenges that a new web design company has (ourselves included) is how to drum up new business. Once you've established yourself and have a solid customer base then this isn't so much of an issue as you have solid foundations and lots of people to call on for referrals and recommendations.
 

There are lots of mistakes that people make in web design, especially when it comes to usability. If you make something "hard to do" or "hard to find" then your visitors will usually make the decision fairly instantly that they don't like your site.
 

Designers and developers often like to use cheat sheets (a concise set of notes used for quick reference) as a quick way of looking up a method or a function and seeing how to use it and/or looking at what is does. We've used these quite a bit and they can come in very handy so here's a collection of some of the ones we have bookmarked.