HTML Analysis Of LSE Library Web Site (July 2003)

A survey of the HTML compliance of the home pages of a number of resources on the LSE Library Web site has been carried out (July 2003).

You can use the service yourself either by going to the HTML Validator or by entering a URL in the following box:

An extra check has also been added to the survey and makes use of the Web Design Group HTML compliance checking tool. The recursive validator will check up to 100 pages on a Web site.

You can use the service yourself by going to the Web Design Group Validator.

Findings

A summary of the findings is given in the following table.

Note: Comp? is short for Compliant?

**Table 1: Key pages**
	Resource	Comp?	HTML Version	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
1	Library entry point	N	HTML 4 (assumed)	12	No DOCTYPE specified	Multiple errors	[Check] [Recursive]
2	Library projects	N	HTML 4 (assumed)	18	No DOCTYPE specified	Only checked one page (one other page not found)	[Check] [Recursive]
3	Library catalogue	N	HTML 4 (assumed)	765	No DOCTYPE or character encoding specified	No recursive analysis not allowed due to robots.txt file	[Check] [Recursive]
4	Gateway to electronic library	N	HTML 4 (assumed)	68	No DOCTYPE or character encoding specified	Multiple errors (3 page checked)	[Check] [Recursive]
5	Course Packs	N	HTML 4 (assumed)	8	No DOCTYPE specified	Multiple errors (1 page checked)	[Check] [Recursive]

The information in the table was collected on 16^th July 2003.

Please note the following:

In cases in which the validator would not check the page due to missing DOCTYPE or character encoding it was assumed that the document should be HTML 4 and utf-8 character encoding. These values were specified and the validation rerun.

A summary of the findings is given below.

**Table 1A: Compliance**
Compliant	0	0%
Not Compliant	4	100%