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Evaluating your Organisational Home Page
Aims of this Exercise
In the following exercises you will use a number of Web-based services to evaluate the size and look of your organisational home page
This data will then be compared with other that of other Web sites in your community in a benchmarking exercise.
1.1 The Size of your Home Page using NetMechanic
Go to the NetMechanic Web site at the address: < http://www.netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm> and scroll down the page to the HTML Toolbox Free Sample.
Enter your home page URL and personal details and test now.
Click on the link to View a Detailed Report on Load Time.
Once the results have been obtained complete the following table.
Page SizeTotal Page SizeTotal Graphics
Load Time by Modem SpeedModem SpeedDownload Time14.4k28.8k 56kISDN(128k)T1 (1.44 MB)
1.2 The Size of your Home Page using Bobby
Go to the Bobby Web site at the address: .
Enter the URL of your organisational Web site and click on the Submit button.
Scroll down the page to Download Time
Page SizeTotal Page Size (K)Total Time (secs)1.3 Comparison
How do the total page sizes compare using the two tools?
If there are discrepancies can you think of reasons for them?
Which tool do you prefer?
1.4 Other Tools
In your own time look at the products available at:
1.5 The Look of your Home Page
Have a look at your organisational Home Page and decide which of the following it has:
Home PageTick if applicableTraditional menu structureChangeable page, with news feedsPersonalised pageDynamic pageSplash screensSpawns a new windowsPages requiring specialist browser functionality (e.g. plugins, Java support, etc.)
The rolling demonstration currently being run gives examples of University Home Pages.
1.6 The content of your Home page
Go to your organisational Web site and then add a non-existent file name to the end (e.g http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/foo) Your Web sites 404 page will be displayed.
How useful is the page? Does it provide help information, navigational aids and have your organisations look-and-feel?
Do you have a search engine?
Validation and Accessibility
Aims of this Exercise
In the following exercises you will use a number of Web-based services to check the accessibility and validity of your organisational Web site.
This data will then be compared with other that of other Web sites in your community in a benchmarking exercise.
2.1 Bobby
Remaining on the Bobby Web site at the address: .
Does your site contain any accessibility problems?
2.2 WAVE
Go to the Wave 2.0 Web site at the address: < http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/yindex.htm>
Enter the URL of your organisational Web site.
2.3 W3C HTML HTML Validation Service
Go to the Web address:
Enter the URL of your organisational Web site and click on the validation button. Does your page have any errors? Approximately how many? Why?
2.4 Dr Watson
Go to the Web address:
Select the options to analyse the HTML syntax, regular and image links, search engine compatibility and site link popularity. Make a note of any errors or problem areas detected.
2.5 Web Stress
From your desktop open up Web stress 2.2, also available at .
Add your organisational Web site URL to the URL to test box.
Set the number of tests at 50 and tick the simultaneous requests box.
Click the start test button.
What is the average request time? Are the bars in the graph red or green?
2.6 Link Alarm
Go to the Web address:
Enter your details and your organisational Web site URL in the box on the right hand side. Fill in the further details and submit your Web page for testing. Make sure you give just your home page URL (e.g. index.html) to av4oid the whole site being checked.
Add the report URL to your favourites, it may take some time and you can return to it later.
How many broken links were there on your home page?
Statistics and Web site Popularity
Aims of this Exercise
In the following exercises you will use a number of Web-based statistical packages which can be used to monitor the number and profile of visitors to your organisational Web site. You will also look at services that monitor the number of links to your Web site.
This data will then be compared with other that of other Web sites in your community in a benchmarking exercise.
3.1 LinkPopularity
Go to the LinkPopularity Web site at the address: .
Enter the address of your organisational Web site.
Complete the following table.
Search EngineNumbers of LinksAltaVistaInfoseekHotbot
3.2 WebsMostLinked
Go to the WebsMostLinked Web site at .
Submit the domain name for your organisational Web site.
What position are you?
3.3 NetMechanic
Go to the NetMechanic Web site at the address: and follow the link to Promote. Then select the link to the Free Sample to Track Your Website at .
Enter the address of your organisational Web site followed by a likely search term e.g. University of Borcestershire library. Then click on the Submit button.
Is your Web site in the top 40?
3.4 Cultivate Interactive
Go to the Cultivate Interactive Web site at the address: .
Scroll to the bottom of the window and click on the multi-coloured icon to the left of the Copyright statement.
What is the average number of visitors per day?
Use the Recent Visitors menu to the left of the window to find out how recent visitors were referred to the Web site.
Go to and click on the blue icon to the left of the copyright statement How many visitors have read this article? Compare with other articles.
Do you use Web statistics (either externally hosted or purchased) about your Web site? How many visitors access your site?
Evaluating Different Browsers
Aims of this Exercise
In the following exercises you will use a number of Web-based services to view your organisational Web site using a number of browser emulators.
This data will then be compared with other that of other Web sites in your community in a benchmarking exercise.
4.1 How Many Browsers
How many different browsers do your think there are, besides Netscape and Internet Explorer?
Go to the Browser Archives at the address: . Approximately how many browsers are listed?
4.2 Browser Emulators
Go to the DejaVu Web site at the address: . Select the Emulator link. From the image first choose the option to use NCSA Mosaic.
Click on the Open button near the bottom of the window and enter the URL of your organisational Web site.
How different does your Web site look in the NCSA Mosaic browser? Is your Web site usable in this browser?
If you have time, use other browsers, such as HotJava.
4.3 Lynx Emulator
Go to the Lynx emulator at the address: (or see the list of Lynx browsers at ).
Enter the URL of your organisational Web site to see how it looks using a text-only browser such as Lynx.
4.4 SiteViewer
Go to the AnyBrowser Web site at the address: .
Select the SiteViewer link to the page at .
Scroll down to the Other Compatibility Levels section. Enter the URL of your organisational Web site and select the HTML 2.0 option. Then click on the View Page button to view your Web site as a HTML 2.0 compliant browser would see it (e.g. without support for tables).
Return to the SiteViewer and choose the option to view your Web site using the HTML supported by WebTV.
4.5 SiteViewer (ii)
Return to the AnyBrowser Web site at the address: .
Select the Screen Size Test link to the page at .
Enter the URL of your organisational Web site and select the 600 x 480 button to view what your Web site would,look like at this screen resolution.
Return to the Screen Size Test page and choose the option to view your Web site at other screen resolutions.
4.6 WAP Emulator
Go to the Web address: . Then enter the WAP address or and click the Wapilizer button.
What does your page look like in the Wapalizer?
Benchmarking Your Web site" Workshopat the Institutional Web Management Workshop, 25-27 June 2001
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