Martech Zone Apps Articles
Martech Zone Apps is a collection of small web-based tools, web-based apps and calculators provided free to marketers to help them with there day to day work.
App: Post and Retrieve HTTP Header Information
HTTP headers play a crucial role as the gatekeepers of valuable information exchanged between web browsers, servers, and APIs. These headers, part of the HTTP request and response messages, convey essential metadata about the nature of the request or the content being transferred. Understanding and analyzing HTTP headers is key to diagnosing and resolving web-related issues for developers, marketers, and…
App: DNS Propagation Checker
DNS propagation is the process by which changes to DNS records are distributed and updated across the Internet. When a domain name’s DNS records are modified, such as updating the IP address associated with a domain’s A record, these changes need time to be reflected universally. DNS propagation can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours, depending on…
App: Measure Your Website’s Response Time with This Simple Metrics Tool
When a website loads slowly, it’s not always clear what’s to blame. Is it the DNS provider? The server itself? Or something in between? To help web professionals pinpoint where delays occur, I’ve published this tool on this site that measures the full lifecycle of an HTTP request, from domain resolution to content delivery. This browser-based tool uses server-side diagnostics to simulate a…
App: What Is Your Site’s Machine Experience (MX) Score?
Web designers and marketers have spent the last two decades honing User Experience (UX)—the art and science of creating intuitive, engaging, and accessible websites for humans. With the advent of AI and browser usability features, perhaps a new metric needs to emerge that is equally critical: Table of ContentsMachine ExperienceWhat is Semantic Markup?Machine Experience CalculatorHow AI, Reader Views, and Text-to-Speech…
App: HTML Viewer and Editor for Email Signatures and Web Snippets
When you see an email signature you admire—or a section of a website that’s styled just right—copying the HTML directly can be tricky. Often, pasting it into a text editor strips out formatting, or worse, breaks the structure entirely. HTML Viewer and Editor The Martech Zone HTML Viewer solves that problem. Whether you’re replicating a professional email signature from someone…
App: How To Find Your Company’s Direct Google Review Link
You can find your review link in your Google Business Profile settings, but it’s not immediately obvious. The direct review link is https://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid= with your Place ID appended. As I was helping a colleague create their direct review link, I decided to build a nice app for Martech Zone to help you find it: Locating Your Direct Review Link Your…
App: WHOIS Lookup
If you’ve ever registered a domain, your domain registrar is required to publish a registration record publicly. A WHOIS lookup is a tool that allows individuals to search for domain name registration information. This tool is essential for reviewing domain ownership specifics, as it provides contact details, domain registration information, and expiry dates. Here is a breakdown of the optional…
App: Trace URL Redirects and View All Your Hops with our Redirect Checker
Redirects play a crucial role on the Internet, ensuring users are directed to the correct destination pages and resources. Redirect tracking or redirect tracing are terms used to describe the process of following and monitoring the path that a URL takes when it undergoes one or more redirects, typically to ensure that the redirects are functioning correctly and to diagnose…
App: Analyze If Your Content Is Tuned In To Your Customers?
Years ago, I built a tool that took a company’s feed and analyzed it to see whether it was speaking to the company or focused on how it served its customers. I called it the Tuned In Calculator since it was inspired by the book Tuned In. Understanding how your content communicates with your audience is critical. Companies often struggle…
Referrer SPAM List: How to Exclude Referral Spam from Google Analytics 4
Have you ever checked your Google Analytics (GA4) reports only to find some strange referrers in the reports? You go to their site, and there’s no mention of you, but there are a ton of other offers there. Guess what? Those people never actually referred traffic to your site. Ever. If you didn’t realize how Google Analytics works, a pixel is added…
