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Inspectors - Good Tools #3

20+ zero-cost tools that make visible what otherwise is not.

Robin Good
Feb 11, 2023
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Hello, and welcome to issue n.3 of Good Tools.

In this issue, as in the ones that follow, you will find tools, apps and browser extensions that are uniquely useful to indie entrepreneurs, bootstrapped startups, authors and small publishers alike.

For this specific edition, I have gone after “Inspectors”, tools and apps that aid in uncovering information that is not otherwise visible and to see, discover and find out things that are not normally evident or known, such as:

  • on which date an article was originally published

  • what fonts are being used on a web page

  • what tech is behind a specific site

  • how much traffic a site has

The filtering criteria I use for the tools I select are:

  • 100% free (or have very generous free plan)

  • Not popular, well-known

  • Useful for communication, marketing, collaboration, monetization

  • Tested and verified by me (Robin Good)

If you find tools that are truly useful for you inside this issue, please consider supporting this work with a paid subscription.

That’s the best way to reward and encourage my work and to make sure I keep on doing it.

Robin Good


 
 
  

Inspector Tools


1) Find Out What a Website Is Built With

  • SiteReport by netcraft
    Most detailed analysis of any website tech stat, servers, DNS, etc.
    website
    100% free

  • Builtwith
    Up-to-date technology stack profile of any website
    website
    100% free

  • WhatRuns
    Chrome extension
    100% free

 
 

2) Discover What Fonts Are Used on a Web Page

  • WhatFont

    Real-time font discovery on any web page
    Chrome extension
    100% free

  • FontID 
    discover fonts inside an image by leveraging real human experts

    100% free

  • WhatFontIs
    Find any font from any image you upload - AI supported
    website
    100% free

  • FontNinja
    multi-browser extension
    100% free

  • TypeSample
    bookmarklet (all browsers) identifies fonts + saves and allows type sampling
    100% free

  • Fonty
    website
    100% free

 
  

3) Identify a Specific Color Appearing on a Web Page

  • Colorzilla
    Swiss army knife of color pickers. Must-have.
    Chrome extension
    100% free

  • ColorPicker
    Chrome extension
    100% free

 
 

4) Unveil RSS Feed of Any Website
(for those who have one)

  • Get RSS Feed URL
    If there is an RSS/Atom feed on a site this tool will find it
    Firefox and Chrome extension
    100% free

  • RSS Finder
    Good alternative, recently updated - can also identify YouTube channels feeds
    Chrome extension
    100% free

  • RSS Feed Finder
    Chrome extension
    100% free

 

5) Find Out First Publication Date of Any Webpage

Finitimus

Chrome extension
100% free

 
 

6) Gauge Any Website Traffic, BR and Visit Duration

  • Similarweb.com
    Website
    100% free

  • Rayst
    Chrome extension
    100% free

 

7) Find All eMails of a Company

  • Voilanorbert
    Type name of a person and its company and get his email
    free 50 emails / month
    registration required

  • Hunter
    Type name of a company or domain and get all the emails of personnel
    free 25 searches / month
    registration required

  • FindThatLead
    Find emails for website domains or for specific LinkedIN pages
    free 50 searches / month
    Chrome extension
    Video demo

 

8) See the Page and Domain Authority of Any Website

  • Moz Toolbar
    Instructions on how to use it (detailed)
    registration required

 

9) Identify file Type for Any File Without an Extension

  • Toolsley File
    invaluable when you need to understand what type of file you have when the extension is missing.
    100% free

 
 

10) Discover What Theme Any Wordpress Website Uses

  • WhatWPThemeIsThat
    Just type the URL of a WP-based site and find that what theme is being used
    Web app
    100% free

 
 

Bonus Inspectors

Find Out Real Authority of Any Twitter Account
X-ray any Twitter account and see through the real engagement and followers data

Uncover Twitter Fake Followers
Find out what percentage of followers a person has on Twitter are fake

 

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Personal Note

Hello, thank you for being a reader looking for alternative tools.

I enjoy helping indie entrepreneurs looking for side-roads.

My name is Robin Good and I have been searching, testing and sharing great rare-to-find tools for indie entrepreneurs since March 2000.

I do this because I enjoy finding useful but hard-to-find resources and I feel it is my mission not to keep these just for me but to share them with anyone who may need them.

I am part of a growing number of people who help others find what they need by organizing the info and resources that are already available online, but are impossible to find via Google search.

If you feel that what I do is useful for you and for others please do support this newsletter with a paid subscription so that I, and others, can continue to fulfill our mission of sharing the best of what we find with you.

 

from sunny Holbox island,

Robin Good

Thanks for reading Good Tools! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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Jeremy Caplan
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Feb 15Liked by Robin Good

Nice list of useful resources, Robin!

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Chris Hartsfield
Feb 11

Thanks Robin, this is my first of your newsletters. This made me wish you had a tool that would help me find a webpage for any newsletter if one exists.

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