HTML Analysis Of Web Sites

A survey of the HTML compliance of home pages of Web sites for participants on the Benchmarking Web Sites workshop hosted by NEMLAC has been carried out. 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	NEMLAC	N	Not defined	31 errors	No DOCTYPE and no character encoding.	Check
2	Discovery Museum	N	XHTML 1.0	58 errors		Check
3	Hexham Libraries	N	HTML 4 - defined twice in DTD	Multiple errors	Character encoding mismatch.	Check
4	Newcastle Library	N	Not defined	10 errors	No DOCTYPE and no character encoding.	Check
5	Hartlepool Borough Libraries	N	Not defined	16 errors	No DOCTYPE and no character encoding.	Check
6	Northumberland Record Office	Y	HTML 4	0 errors		Check
7	Tyne & Wear Museums	N	XHTML 1.0	3 errors		Check
8	Hadrian's Wall	N	HTML 4.0	8 errors	No DOCTYPE and no character encoding	Check

The information in the table was collected on 10^th September 2004.

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 2: HTML Compliance**
Compliant	1	12.5%
Not Compliant	7	87.5%