NetMechanic Analysis Of Web Sites in the RSC Yorkshire & Humber Region

A survey of the home pages of Web Sites in the RSC Yorkshire & Humber region 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
  Organisation Broken Links HTML Errors Browser Compatibility Load time Comments Try It
1 Askham Bryane College 0 5 30 21.43   Page Check
2 Barnsley College 0 1 8 22.86   Page Check
3 Bishop Burton College 0 2 0 4.12   Page Check
4 Bradford College 0 6 6 29.77   Page Check
5 Calderdale College 0 3 8 45.37   Page Check
6 Craven College 0 0 6 3.47 Uses IFRAME, so results misleading Page Check
7 Dearne Valley College 0 1 5 20.10   Page Check
8 Dewsbury College 0 0 4 21.85   Page Check
9 Doncaster College 0 0 2 3.55   Page Check
10 East Riding College 0 2 4 16.83   Page Check
11 Franklin College ? ? ? ? Framed page - not analysed Page Check
12 Greenhead College 1 0 0 26.97   Page Check
13 Grimsby College 0 1 4 3.08 Splash screen Page Check
14 Huddersfield New College 0 3 5 37.47   Page Check
15 Huddersfield Technical College 0 ? ? 2.00 Incorect results (due to use of BASE element?) Page Check
16 Hull College 0 0 0 8.95   Page Check
17 John Leggott College 0 1 4 2.68 Splash screen Page Check
18 Joseph Priestley College 0 2 4 15.69   Page Check
19 Keighley College 0 ? 2 Incorrect results given Page Check
20 Leeds College of Art 0 1 2 7.00 Images embedded using JavaScript, so possibly not analysed Page Check
21 Leeds College of Building 0 1 4 2.25 Splash screen Page Check
22 Leeds College of Music ? ? ? ? Framed page not analysed Page Check
23 Leeds College of Technology ? ? ? ? Framed page not analysed Page Check
24 New College, Pontefract 0 2 4 24.63   Page Check
25 North Lindsey College 0 0 0 28.34   Page Check
26 Northern College ? ? ? ? Web site not available Page Check
27 Notre Dame 6th Form College 0 1 1 14.41   Page Check
28 Park Lane College ? ? ? ? Framed site not analysed Page Check
29 Rotherham College of Arts and Technology 2 10 4 26.75   Page Check
30 Rother Valley College ? ? ? ?   Page Check
31 Scarborough 6th Form College 1 0 7 9.21   Page Check
32 Selby College ? ? ? ? Server unavailable Page Check
33 Sheffield College 0 0 8 14.06   Page Check
34 Shipley College ? ? ? ? Framed site - not analysed Page Check
35 Thomas Danby College 0 0 6 21.35   Page Check
36 Thomas Rotherham College 0 0 2 15.43 Spawns new window Page Check
37 Wakefield College 0 5 7 20.89   Page Check
38 Wilberforce College 0 5 1 15.24   Page Check
39 Wyke College ? ? ? ? Framed site - not analysed Page Check
40 York College ? ? ? ? Framed site - not analysed Page Check
41 Yorkshire Coast College 0 0 2 15.77   Page Check
42 RSC Yorkshire & Humber 0 0 1 37.54   Page Check

The information in the table was collected on 13-14th January 2004.

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