Netmechanic Analysis Of Selected Museum Web Sites

A survey of the home pages of selected Museum Web Sites has been carried out. The survey makes use of the Netmechanic.

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

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Findings

Table 1: Findings
  Museum Broken Links HTML Errors Browser Compatibility Load time Comments Try It
1 mda 0 1 1 12   Page Check
2 24hourmuseum 0 (of first 25) 0 0 43.9   Page Check
3 Natural History Museum (NHM) 1 (of first 25) 13 22 22.54   Page Check
4 National Museum of Science and Industry 0 0 0 2.07 Checks Flash detection page and not real page Page Check
5 Bath Postal Museum 0 24 7 41.18   Page Check
6 American Museum 0 (of first 25) 0 0 15.28   Page Check

The information in the table was collected on 15th August 2003.

Additional Survey

The following table gives details of the Web sites for participants at the workshop.

Table 2: Findings
  Museum Broken Links HTML Errors Browser Compatibility Load time Comments Try It
1 Association of Suffolk Museums 1 (of first 25) 17 0 15.46   Page Check
2 ABL 1 3 3 12.71   Page Check
3 BECTa Not reported Not reported Not reported Not reported Analysis cancelled after over 2,200 links checked! Evidence of possible problem. Page Check

The information in the table was collected on 8th September 2003.

Notes

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