Benchmarking


Day 2: Benchmarking

This page contains details of the slides for the "Benchmarking" session at the STIMULATE 6 workshop which will be held in Belgium on 30-31st October 2006.

Title

Benchmarking

Abstract: Benchmarking (45 mins)

This talk will describe how benchmarking of Web sites can help to identify best practices and areas in which improvements made be made.

Slides

The slides for this session are available:
[MS PowerPoint] - [HTML]

 

URLs

The following URLs will be used during the workshop.

Exercise Service URL
1.1 NetMechanic <http://www.netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm#html_sample>
1.2 Doctor HTML <http://www.doctor-html.com/RxHTML/>
1.3 Webscale Site Timer <http://www.webscale.com/cgi-bin/timer.dll?Mode=Timer>
1.5 404 Pages <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/
workshops/nemlac-2004-09/surveys/entry-points/
>
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/>
<http://www.plinko.net/404/>
<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue20/404/>
2.1 Bobby <http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/>
2.2 The WAVE <http://wave.webaim.org/>
2.3 Visicheck <http://vischeck.com/vischeckURL.php3>
2.4 W3C HTML Validation Service <http://validator.w3.org/>
2.5 Dr Watson <http://watson.addy.com/>
2.6 Link Alarm <http://www.linkalarm.com/>
2.7 Walidator <http://www.walidator.com/>
3.1 Link Popularity <http://www.linkpopularity.com/>
3.2 Netmechanic <http://www.netmechanic.com/>
3.3 MarketLeap <http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/>
3.4 Google <http://www.google.co.uk/>
3.5 Realranker <http://www.realranker.com/>
3.6 DCS <http://www.describethis.com/>
4.1 Browser Archive <http://browsers.evolt.org/>
4.2 Browser Emulators <http://www.dejavu.org/>
4.3 Lynx Emulator <http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html>
4.4 Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer <http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html>
4.5 AnyBrowser <http://www.anybrowser.com/>
5.4 Search Engine Software <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/
events/workshops/nemlac-2004-09/surveys/search-engines/
>
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/surveys/uk-he-search-engines/>

 

Other URLs

The following URLs may also be useful.

Browser Extensions

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/>

Evaluating Site Accessibility

Service URL
Etre <http://www.etre.com/tools/accessibilitycheck//>
Color Readability Test <http://snow.utoronto.ca/readtest/>
Web Metrics Testbed <http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/webmet/>
Vischeck <http://vischeck.com/vischeckURL.php3>

Evaluating Your Organisational Home Page

Service URL
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.superstats.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/>
HTML Browser <http://www.smiffysplace.com/sourcebrowse.pl>

Link Checker

Service URL
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>

Link Popularity, Robot Checkers, etc

Service URL
LinkPopularity.com <http://www.linkpopularity.com/>
LinkPopularityCheck.com <http://www.linkpopularitycheck.com/>
MarketleapLink Popularity <http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/>
Link Popularity Check, Uptimebot.com <http://www.uptimebot.com/>
Robots.txt Checker <http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml>

WebWatch

Service URL
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/>