RSC Yorkshire and Humber Workshops - February / March 2004Brian Kelly facilitated three Benchmarking Web Sites workshop for RSC Yorkshire and Humber. The workshops were held in:
This event will provide an opportunity for participants to benchmark their college (or other) Web site by making use of a range of Web-based tools. Delegates will compare their findings in order to try to identify examples of best practices and areas in which improvements may be made. Following the hands-on session there will be a presentation outlining some of the issues associated with this approach to benchmarking. The event will conclude by a group discussion of possible follow-up actions.
A number of surveys of Web sites have been published.
The draft timetable, which is subject to change, is given below.
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Registration & Coffee |
| 10:30 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 10:50 | 'Introduction To Benchmarking Web Sites' - Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus |
| 11:00 | 'Benchmarking Web Sites' - hands-on session |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:15 | Hands-on session (continued) |
| 14:00 | Discussion |
| 14:10 | Report Back |
| 14:20 | Accessibility (on 10 February and 16 March 2004 workshops) / Open Source Software (on 17 March 2004 workshop) |
| 15:20 | Conclusions |
| 15:30 | Workshop ends |
The following URLs will be used during the workshop.
| Exercise | Service | URL |
| 1.1 | NetMechanic | <http://www.netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm> |
| 1.2 | Bobby | <http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/> |
| 1.5 | UK University Web Entry Points | <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/site-rolling-demos/universities/> |
| 2.3 | W3C HTML Validation Service | <http://validator.w3.org/> |
| 2.6 | Link Alarm | <http://www.linkalarm.com/> |
| 3.1 | Link Popularity | <http://www.linkpopularity.com/> |
| 4.2 | Browser Emulators | <http://www.dejavu.org/> |
The following URLs may also be useful.
| Service | URL | |
| Bookmarklets | <http://www.bookmarklets.com/> | |
| Cacheability Engine | <http://www.ircache.net/cgi-bin/cacheability.py?action=show_ext> | |
| Extending Your Browser | <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue19/web-focus/> | |
| WebWatch Services | <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/webwatch/services/> |
| Anybrowser | <http://www.anybrowser.com/> | |
| DejaVu (Browser Emulators) | <http://www.dejavu.org/> | |
| Evolt.org (archive of old browsers) | <http://browsers.evolt.org/> | |
| Lynx Emulator | <http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html> | |
| Test display | <http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/html2txt?url=> | |
| Wapilizer | <http://www.gelon.net/> |
| AltaVista | <http://www.altavista.com/> | |
| LinkPopularity | <http://www.linkpopularity.com/> | |
| NetMechanic | <http://www.netmechanic.com/powerpack/tracker.htm> | |
| Searchenginewatch's Guidelines I | <http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/checkurl.html> | |
| Searchenginewatch's Guidelines II | <http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/popularity.html> |
| Bobby | <http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/> | |
| Color Readability Test | <http://snow.utoronto.ca/readtest/> | |
| Web Metrics Testbed | <http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/webmet/> | |
| Wave 3.0 | <http://wave.webaim.org/> | |
| Vischeck | <http://vischeck.com/vischeckURL.php3> | |
| Web Accessibility | <http://www.w3.org/WAI/report/> |
| Dr HTML | <http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/> |
| NetMechanic | <http://www.netmechanic.com/> |
| InternetSeer | <http://www.internetseer.com/> |
| NetMechanic Monitoring Service | <http://www.netmechanic.com/monitor.htm> |
| Watchdog | <http://watchdog.mycomputer.com/> |
| Alertsite | <http://alertsite.com/freetrial/> |
| WebWatch Services | <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/webwatch/services/> |
| Dr Watson | <http://watson.addy.com/> |
| LinkAlarm | <http://www.linkalarm.com/> |
| NetMechanic Maintenance Service | <http://www.netmechanic.com/maintain.htm> |
| SiteValet | <http://valet.webthing.com/> |
| This Old Mouse | <http://www.thisoldmouse.com/> |
| Webmaster-Toolkit | <http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/> |
| Netmechanic | <http://www.netmechanic.com/> |
| Nodeworks | <http://www.nodeworks.com/> |
| Site valet | <http://valet.webthing.com/> |
| Xenu | <http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html> |
| LinkTool | <http://www.linktool.com/> |
| Usable Web | <http://usableweb.com/topics/000811-0-0.html> |
| Software in Use: | <http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue5/software-used/> |
| Freshwater Software | <http://www.freshtech.com/> |
| WebKing | <http://www.thewebking.com/products/webking/> |
| A Survey Of Links to UK University Web Sites | <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue23/web-watch/> |
| A Survey Of Numbers of UK University Web Servers | <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/web-watch/> |
| A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites | <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/web-watch/> |
| Showing Robots the Door | <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue15/robots/> |
| UK University Search Engines | <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/webwatch/> |
| Web Watch: 404s - What's Missing? | <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue20/404/> |
| WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges | <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue12/web-focus/> |
| What's Related To My Web Site? | <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue27/web-watch/> |
| Rolling Demonstration of UK University Web Entry Points | <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/site-rolling-demos/universities/> |
| Rolling Demonstration of UK University 404 Error Pages | <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/site-rolling-demos/university-404-pages/> |