Benchmarking Web Sites Workshop For Museum New Media Spring School - HTML Analysis of Selected Web Sites

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The following table gives a summary of a survey of the HTML compliance of home pages of Web sites for participants on the "Leicester Spring School In New Media" which was held at University of Leicester on 20^th April 2005.

The survey makes use of the W3C HTML compliance checking tool.

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

Findings

**Table 1: Findings**
	Organisation	Compliant?	HTML Version	Errors	Comments	Try It
1	Natural History Museum	N	HTML 4	56 errors		Check
2	National Museum of Science and Industry (No Flash entry point)	N	HTML 4	8 errors	No DOCTYPE Note home page checks for Flash support and then automatically redirects.	Check
3	The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television	N	Not defined	20 errors	No DOCTYPE and no character encoding	Check
4	National Museums and Galleries of Wales	N	XHTML 1	15 errors	No DOCTYPE	Check
5	Cotswold Motoring Museum'	Y	XHTML 1 Strict	0 errors		Check
6	Bolton Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium	N	HTML 4	33 errors		Check
7	Museum of Science And Industry In Manchester	N	HTML 4	38 errors		Check
8	24 Hour Museum	Y	HTML 4	0 errors		Check
9	MWR	N	XHTML 1	5 errors		Check
10	Arts and Technology Partnership	N	Not defined	22 errors	No DOCTYPE found	Check
11	Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester	N	XHTML 1	53 errors		Check
12	Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Open University	Y	XHTML 1	0 errors		Check
12	elearning group for museums and galleries, libraries and archives	N	Not defined	7 errors	No DOCTYPE found	Check

The information in the table was collected on 14^th April 2005.

Notes

Please note the following:

Only the entry points have been analysed.
Only an automated analysis has been carried out.
The online version of this page allows the latest findings to be obtained.

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

**Table 1: HTML Compliance**
Compliant	3	23%
Not Compliant	10	77%