Let me start by talking abit about LiteTest and why it exists.
LiteTest came up as an idea one day during a converastion about website testing.
We were talking about ideas for websites and how everyone had so many brilliant ideas, but during this conversation the topic of testing and feedback came up.
Anyone can create a website but how do we find out what others think about our website?
How can we compare our website with others? Sure we can look at page ranking, we can look at Alexa etc. but we have no way of comparing the websites side by side, by how well it is doing on it's design, content quality etc. etc.
Well, I'm getting ahead of my self a bit here, talking about comparing websites. We will get to that later.
So back to the story. I realised that I could look at my friends website, and give him feedback about his site, and he could do the same for me. That way, we would get second oppinions on our sites. This would work up to a certain point, but we would need more feedback, from various people in the web comunity.
The idea for LiteTest came when I blurted out "but what if we had one website where we could test all websites?" and that was the birth of the idea for LiteTest.
Now, what can you do with LiteTest and why would you care?
A big problem with asking your collegues, friends and family is that they will have a hard time providing useful feedback because it might not be in their nature to say what they really think (on LiteTest, we encurrage people to really say what they think about a site!). So feedback from your neightbour might be a little bit tame. Even if your friend gives you his honest opinion, there is no way to visualy compare that to what others think (unless you carry a questionaire with you).
Another option is to ask strangers in a forum: "hey, what do you think about my website?". The response you will get will be cluttered with useless information, and only a few oppinions will be useful, but without comparison or historical data this could be hard to make use of.
On LiteTest.com we decided to create a template depending on the type of site you have, that way we can guide people less knowledgable on the web through the tests. A nice rating system with a good list of feedback is worth so much more than a comment in a forum (which usually sounds like this: "Nice site, maybe some more images etc". Now that isn't going to be anything that you want to take into your next release?
But what if you could see a properly formated report?
Usability: 3.33 / 5
Content quality: 3.33 / 5
Design: 4 / 5
Navigation: 3.33 / 5
And much more, followed by a long list of feedback.
By aggregating the reports and computing a score, you can easily see what people think!
You can see an example of what report looks like here.
Once you have done a new release of your website, you can update the release version on LiteTest as well, this way you can make use of the trending feature, and see how your website is changing across the releases.
We don't charge our users for this service, we only ask that they them selves provide feedback for others websites before they get feedback for theirs.
Our curreny model ensure that everyone gets at least three or more reports on their website.
I recommend you have a look at the site.
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Saturday, 18 July 2009
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