Link-checking Analysis Of Selected Resources On the LSE Library Web Site (June 2003)

A survey of the links of selected resources on the LSE Library Web site has been carried out. The survey makes use of the W3C link-checking tool.

You can use the service yourself either by going to W3C link-checking tool or by entering a URL in the following box:

or use the following box to check links on the page and pages beneath it:

Findings

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

**Table 1: Key Pages**
	Resource	Links on page	Links beneath page	Comments	Try It
1	Library entry point	1	Multiple pages checked and broken links found (including one consistent error)	Error due to a missing internal anchor	[Check] [Recursive Check]
2	Library projects	3	No pages beneath	Errors due to a missing internal anchor, a non-existent local and remote page	[Check] [Recursive Check]
3	Library catalogue Note session	0	No pages beneath		[Check] [Recursive Check]
4	Gateway to electronic library	2	3 pages checked and broken links found (including consistent errors)	Errors due to a missing internal anchor and a missing spacer image	[Check] [Recursive Check]
5	Course Packs	1	No pages beneath	Error due to a missing internal anchor	[Check] [Recursive Check]

The information in the table was collected on 17^th June 2003.

Please note the following:

The W3C validator can detect broken links which other link checkers may not find, such as internal links and links from<IMG>, <LINK>, etc. HTML elements.
The online version of this page allows the latest findings to be obtained.

A summary of the findings is given below.

**Table 1: Link Checking**
Pages With Broken Links	4	80%
Pages With No Broken Links	1	20%