Does your web site need analysis?

Move over virtual solitaire and online quizzes. Here’s a new time killer we found that should keep you entertained for a good ten minutes or so. It’s the Typealyzer, a web site that promises to analyze your website and determine, in Myers-Briggs fashion what “type” that site is. If you’ve never taken an MB quiz, basically it uses a series of questions to determine what “type” of person you are. For example I’m ENTP, or extroverted/intuitive/thinking/perceiving. And I’ve always been partial to tests that sum up your life in an acronym.

Typealyzer is far simpler to use than MB, since you just type in a url and get a response pretty quickly. What, exactly, you’re supposed to do with the results is not clear. Oh, they try to make it clear on the about page but I suspect this page was originally written in another language and then run through Babelfish (which we were just talking about in another post.) Or maybe it was written in English — by a drunken Swede. Hard to tell, but here’s just one example of the “helpful” interpretation info they offer on the about page:

If you should cook a fantastic dinner to your friends, you have to keep an eye on the details, the time it takes for the various dishes, that you have prepared all the ingredients and if someone is an allergic.

For what it’s worth, the LaunchPad Coworking blog came up as ESTP, aka The Doers, which, according to Typealyzer, means our site is:

The active and play-ful (sic) type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities. The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.

Funny what happens when you type http://www.typealzer.com into the system. You get—that’s right—an error message:

Detected language Thai. The only supported languages are English and Swedish. But stay tuned, we are expanding.

What’s your Myers-Briggs profile? And your site’s?