There are more short URL generators than you can shake a stick at. Some of these generators have been upping their service to more than just offering short URLs. The belief that doing simple things extraordinarily well will set you apart is especially true when it comes to perhaps the next big URL shortener named Cligs.

After creating a website, we want to know how we did. We want to know our traffic statistics, how we compare to similar sites, what we could improve on, and what works and what doesn’t. Detailed reports that explain how to get a higher page rank are hard to come by. WebsiteGrader.com has all those features and more.

Ever have a recent surge in traffic but not realize what happened until four hours later because you were using Google Analytics? Perhaps you want to show off your traffic in an attractive and easily embeddable format? Let me introduce you to the truly analytical world of a great open source program named Piwik.

Was your website ever taken offline due to a recent surge in traffic? Google Analytics wouldn’t report the issue until a few hours later! What’s a web developer to do? W3Counter might be the needle in the haystack you’ve been waiting for.