Resources Used For Testing
Below you'll find details on how we put together our web site evaluation reports. We spend anywhere from 15 minutes to half an hour on each report because we believe it's a good investment in getting to know you and gaining your trust as an information and web site maintenance resource. Thanks for the opportunity!
- HTML Validation Errors - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sets the standards for the language of web documents - HTML, XML, etc. We use their online HTML validation checker to see if your page has errors.
- Javascript Errors - For this section, we open your web page in three different browsers (Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer). These browsers have error display features, which is handy because different browsers can have different errors on the same page!
- Broken Links - W3C has an online program which will check each hyperlink on a web page to see if it leads to a working web site. This is important because you want to give visitors the content they requested, not some broken, outdated mess. Check your links early and often!
- Spelling - TextTrust.com is a great service to detect spelling errors on your web site. You can get a one-time report or a subscription for weekly spell checking reports.
- Unprotected Email Addresses - This tool is provided by the fine folks at WillMaster cgi scripts. It knows some of the tricks spammers use to harvest your email address.
- Meta Tag Content - We wrote our own little PHP program to check the meta tags. If you're using WordPress, you can get a plugin to automatically create meta tags for your blog entries.
- Web Page Size - WebPageAnalyzer.com provides a nifty page which fetches your web page and calculates its size and download speed. And here's a great article on optimizing your images.
If you have suggestions for other information we could provide, please share your ideas - we're happy to try and supply the info you need.
