UKOLN AHDS QA Focus Web Site



Architecture of the QA Focus Web site

In order to assist anyone who may be involved in the preservation of the QA Focus web site or may wish to further develop or redevelop the web site this summary of the technical architecture is provided.

Details

The QA Focus web site is hosted on an Apache web server. It is part of the main UKOLN Web site. The QA Focus web site has the URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/

The web site uses simple PHP to pull-in HTML fragments, A typical directory has the following files:

During the lifetime of the project a database was used was contained details of JISC-funded projects. This database was subsequently switched off. All links to the database should have also been removed.

Note that no JavaScript is believed to be hosted on the project web site.

Content

The web site primarily contains:

The following areas of the web site have been discontinued:

Note that the web site primarily hosts files in the following formats:

The Xenu link-checking software provided a summary of the file formats used on the web site. The table is given below:

Correct internal URLs, by MIME type:

MIME type count % count Σ size Σ size (KB) % size min size max size Ø size Ø size (KB) Ø time
text/html 662 URLs 48.71% 7277902 Bytes (7107 KB) 11.38% 543 Bytes 684983 Bytes 10993 Bytes (10 KB) 0.026
text/xml 6 URLs 0.44% 7600 Bytes (7 KB) 0.01% 503 Bytes 2731 Bytes 1266 Bytes (1 KB)
application/xml 94 URLs 6.92% 535671 Bytes (523 KB) 0.84% 1682 Bytes 53907 Bytes 5698 Bytes (5 KB)
text/css 13 URLs 0.96% 32101 Bytes (31 KB) 0.05% 180 Bytes 12144 Bytes 2469 Bytes (2 KB)
image/gif 81 URLs 5.96% 1811489 Bytes (1769 KB) 2.83% 50 Bytes 120552 Bytes 22364 Bytes (21 KB)
image/png 148 URLs 10.89% 12472014 Bytes (12179 KB) 19.50% 2998 Bytes 379755 Bytes 84270 Bytes (82 KB)
application/msword 263 URLs 19.35% 29181952 Bytes (28498 KB) 45.64% 34304 Bytes 1861120 Bytes 110957 Bytes (108 KB)
application/pdf 4 URLs 0.29% 931936 Bytes (910 KB) 1.46% 131571 Bytes 318749 Bytes 232984 Bytes (227 KB)
image/jpeg 6 URLs 0.44% 103860 Bytes (101 KB) 0.16% 3284 Bytes 34689 Bytes 17310 Bytes (16 KB)
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint 38 URLs 2.80% 10736640 Bytes (10485 KB) 16.79% 61952 Bytes 1052160 Bytes 282543 Bytes (275 KB)
text/plain 8 URLs 0.59% 98528 Bytes (96 KB) 0.15% 308 Bytes 57382 Bytes 12316 Bytes (12 KB)
video/unknown 35 URLs 2.58% 733306 Bytes (716 KB) 1.15% 9486 Bytes 21400 Bytes 20951 Bytes (20 KB)
application/vnd.ms-excel 1 URLs 0.07% 22016 Bytes (21 KB) 0.03% 22016 Bytes 22016 Bytes 22016 Bytes (21 KB)
Total 1359 URLs 100.00% 63945015 Bytes (62446 KB) 100.00%

 

Robustness of the Web Site

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In order to provide evidence of the technical integriety of the project web site an audit of internal links and HTML conformance of significant areas of the project web site are provided.

These audits were carried out during the lifetime of the project, at the end of the project and 8 years after the project had completed.