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

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The following table gives a summary of a link-checking survey for 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 link checking tool.

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

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

The following box can be used to check multiple pages:

Findings

**Table 1: Findings**
	Organisation	Home page	Recursive check	Comments	Try It (Home page)	Try It (Web site)
1	Natural History Museum	3 problems found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
2	National Museum of Science and Industry	0 problems found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
3	The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television	2 problems found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
4	National Museums and Galleries of Wales	3 problems found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
5	Cotswold Motoring Museum'	1 problem found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
6	Bolton Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium	1 problem found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
7	Museum of Science And Industry In Manchester	2 problems found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
8	24 Hour Museum	1 problem found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
9	MWR	1 problem found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
10	Arts and Technology Partnership	0 problems found		On;ly analysed frameset. Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
11	Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester	0 problems found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
12	Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Open University	0 problems found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check
13	elearning group for museums and galleries, libraries and archives	0 problems found		Full Web site not analysed	Page Check	Full Check

The information in the table was collected on 15^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.
Link problems may be due to an intermittent networking problem or downtime of the remote site, and not necessarily due to a permanent broken link.

Summary

**Table 2: Broken Links**
Broken Links or Problems Found	7	54%
No Broken Links or Problems	5	46%
Not analysed	0	0%